----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013 6:24 pm Subject: Re: driver/xf86-input-vmmouse : cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xorg-vmmouse.rules': Permission denied To: Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]
> 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 I am trying to do this compile as anyone would do any other software package which would generally have an install stage that comes after the compile and test phases. So the safe bet is to set CONFFLAGS with something like this : --with-udev-rules-dir=/opt/xorg/udev Dis that and the compile now proceeds but there will need to be some funky install done later to copy those bits in /opt/xorg/udev over to the /etc dir. Maybe .. not sure. Doing a compile as root is just not going to happen. Not without a full system backup first. oooops .. spoke too soon. the compile just failed again and quickly too : ====================================================================== == Processing module/component: "driver/xf86-input-synaptics" == configuration options: --with-udev-rules-dir=/opt/xorg/udev Cloning into driver/xf86-input-synaptics... remote: Counting objects: 6253, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3270/3270), done. remote: Total 6253 (delta 4327), reused 4343 (delta 2943) Receiving objects: 100% (6253/6253), 1.32 MiB | 1.05 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (4327/4327), done. autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /opt/xorg/share/aclocal configure.ac:25: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing configure.ac:25: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `.'. libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh' libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. configure.ac:25: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf configure.ac:25: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader configure.ac:25: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force configure.ac:25: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg configure.ac:39: installing `./config.guess' configure.ac:39: installing `./config.sub' configure.ac:34: installing `./install-sh' configure.ac:34: installing `./missing' src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' autoreconf: Leaving directory `.' configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-udev-rules-dir checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for style of include used by make... 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Alternatively, you may set the environment variables MTDEV_CFLAGS and MTDEV_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details. build.sh: "autogen.sh" failed on driver/xf86-input-synaptics build.sh: error processing module/component: "driver/xf86-input-synaptics" aster $ Looks like another dependecy needed. When I get to the end of this process I plan to write a detailed article that shows how you too can build X. Except with all the dependencies laid out up front as well as the secret[1] tricks to make it work. Dennis [1] stuff someone knows but isn't documented anywhere to make the process easily digestable and no more complex than bootstrapping GCC. _______________________________________________ [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]
