On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:11:36PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > > Do I need to isolate this module, build it as root, and then go back > > to being a > > > regular user or ?? > > > > vmmouse gets the directory to install the udev rules from pkgconfig by > > default, or --with-udev-rules-dir at configure time. if you don't need > > the > > rules, you can consider the installation as successful though and continue > > to the next module. > > Not too sure how to deal with that. I generally just do a pull from git and > then fire off a build. This proceeds neatly until it hits the vmmouse module > which stops the process. I don't see an option anywhere to skip it and > I don't know if it is a "need" or a "want". > > What I could do is put the username doing the compile into a group called > "xorg" and give that group write permissions to a few specific directories. > > Is that what you suggest ? Or am I supposed to do this build as the root > user?
- custom user with the right permissions or root is one option - set $CONFFLAGS in the environment to --with-udev-rules-dir. other modules will ignore it, those that don't would likely run into the same permission issue anyway - you could fake up a udev.pc with a different rules dir defined and prepend that to PKG_CONFIG_PATH Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
