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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Cc: Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reduced privileges install
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:40:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqzkvcwka0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <677DFF75-2DBB-4772-802B-4402E4024307@sb.org> (Kevin Ballard's message of "Sun\, 19 Sep 2010 23\:51\:54 -0700")

Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com> writes:

> make -C perl prefix='/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local' DESTDIR='' install
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/users/students/ak4390/Downloads/git-1.7.2.3/perl'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/users/students/ak4390/Downloads/git-1.7.2.3/perl'
> Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int at /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 85.

The DESTDIR='' is suspicious. It seems the prefix is not passed
properly in recursive "make" invocations, and perl tries to install
things in the default directory.

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:

> Andrew Keller <andrew@kellerfarm.com> writes:
>> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local
>> $ make
>> $ make install
>
> I admit, I'm not well-versed on the build system, but my impression
> was that specifying --prefix in ./configure was indeed supposed to
> propagate to a subsequent make and make install.

It does. I installed Git successfully without ever being root on
several machines.

In my case, it was GNU/Linux machines, so something may go wrong
because of a non-gnu system. Did you try compiling with gmake instead
of make?

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-19 23:50 Reduced privileges install Andrew Keller
2010-09-20  1:07 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-09-20  1:31   ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20  6:51     ` Kevin Ballard
2010-09-20 14:06       ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 14:40       ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2010-09-20 14:52         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-09-20 15:48         ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 14:53 ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 16:56   ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 17:01     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-09-20 20:28       ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 19:12     ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 19:18       ` Brandon Casey
2010-09-20 20:39         ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 22:53       ` Andrew Keller
2010-09-20 23:20         ` Brandon Casey

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