On 10/17/13 11:44, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 10:52:30 AM -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > >> If you cd into your abiword-3.0.0/src directory and execute ./abiword (which happens to be script) what does Help->About tell you >> (once abiword has started)? > > interesting. On my box, it aborts when done as normal user (marco): > > [marco@polaris src]$ pwd > /home/marco/abi3/abiword-3.0.0/src > [marco@polaris src]$ ./abiword > /bin/ld: cannot open output file /home/marco/abi3/abiword-3.0.0/src/.libs/19626-lt-abiword: Permission denied > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit statusn[marco@polaris src]$ > > but works, and says "Abiword 3.0.0" when I do the same thing as root: > > [marco@polaris src]$ su - > Password: > [root@polaris ~]# cd /home/marco/abi3/abiword-3.0.0/src/ > [root@polaris src]# ./abiword > > (starts normally) > > ############################################################### > > Weird. I got no errors, and I don't remember seeing any warning that > may be related to this. Thanks a lot, but what now? > > Hmmm > > Marco > > Hmm, I don't even have that 19626 file in .libs. The entirety of my .libs directory is: -rwxrwxr-x 1 500 1000 47055 Oct 17 10:48 abiword lrwxrwxrwx 1 500 1000 20 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword-3.0.la -> ../libabiword-3.0.la -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 1000 1200 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword-3.0.lai -rwxrwxr-x 1 500 1000 51656791 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword-3.0.so -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 1000 28232 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword_3.0_la-abi_ver.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 1000 72024 Oct 17 10:48 libabiword_3.0_la-libabiword.o -rwxrwxr-x 1 500 1000 47055 Oct 17 10:49 lt-abiword Did you compile as root or sudo by any chance? Kevin -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org