John J. Boyer wrote:
I'm preparing versions of the components of my braille transcription
engine using Gnu autotools. One of the platforms I'm testing it on is
Cygwin, running under Windows XP professional. I'm logged in as
Adminsstrator. When I type make install I get "permission denied"
messages. The first is for installing documentation in /usr/share even
though the directory is owned by my adminsstrative username. What causes
this and what can I do about it?
Hi,
As Samuel says, this is more appropriate for the Cygwin lists. There
are extensive archives which are easily searchable with Google.
Secondly, you really need to read the manual which should be in
/usr/share/doc/cygwin. I am not remembering the name right now but it's
the installation manual or some such. It has several sections on
setting permissions and access controls under XP. It's not just a
matter of creating an admin user. I suppose it's possible that you
might have locked out the admin account from writing to the
\cygwin\usr\share directory or the \cygwin tree but that's doubtful
unless you were changing security settings. Google is probably your
best bet here though as there are several years worth of Cygwin list
archives.
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