Re: Reduced privileges install

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 20, 2010, 14:40 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqzkvcwka0.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <677DFF75-2DBB-4772-802B-4402E4024307@sb.org>

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:

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> 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?

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