walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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': Does 'make all' followed by 'make install' do the same? If so these are indeed very bad. If you run 'make all', and then if you run, without changing anything to cause rebuilding, run 'make install', the build procedure should not create _any_ new file. Otherwise the build procedure is broken and needs to be fixed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html