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Problems installing as root

From
Wwalt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date
Feb 24, 2007, 15:28 UTC
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<erpljl$ln9$1@sea.gmane.org>

I'm current as of this morning (7bd59dee...) and I'm still seeing two problems with doing 'make' as myself but 'make install' as root.

First, 'make install' as root leaves dozens of files owned by root in my personal source directory. A minor nit, but inconvenient during the next 'make'.

Second, this is a more recent problem with 'make install': make -C git-gui all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/mnt/wa1ter/src/git/git-gui' GITGUI_VERSION = 0.6.GITGUI make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/mnt/wa1ter/src/git/git-gui' make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/mnt/wa1ter/src/git/git-gui' /bin/sh ./CREDITS-GEN error: Cannot locate authorship information. make[1]: *** [CREDITS-FILE] Error 1

Now, CREDITS-FILE was generated during 'make' (I checked) so there was no need to generate it again during 'make install', yes?

Thanks!
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