ok, thanks, that works. (second attempt at reply, HTML email bounced)
Karel Zak wrote:
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
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