On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:56:34PM +0000, Richard Cunningham wrote: > I wanted to configure util-linux-ng for testing in my home directory (as > me, not root), so I did the standard > ./configure --prefix=something; make; make install > however when I do that, I get an error changing permissions on a file, > which I think it should ignore and continue: > > [bash]$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/Linux/util-linux-ng-2.14.2-test > >/dev/null > config.status: WARNING: 'po/Makefile.in.in' seems to ignore the > --datarootdir setting > [bash]$ make >/dev/null > [bash]$ make install >/dev/null > chgrp: changing group of > `/dcs/sys/rjc/Linux/util-linux-ng-2.14.2-test/bin/wall': Operation not > permitted > make[3]: *** [install-exec-hook] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [install-exec-am] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > > I think this is a bug because people often want to do this for testing. Try ./configure --help --disable-makeinstall-chown do not do chown-like operations during "make install" Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html