James McKenzie wrote: > Gert van den Berg wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:53, James McKenzie wrote: > > > > > > > You need to be a system administrator user to run make and you have to > > > use sudo to run make: > > > > > > > > > > > Shouldn't make run as a regular user on OS X, as on Linux, with make > > install requiring root, actual compilation not? > > > > > I've run it as sudo because I build a .dmg package. Fink asks for a > system administrator user and password when it builds wine. > > I'll have to look at the other build system I have here from Mike to see > if it needs sudo or not. > > James McKenzie normal source install on Mac OS X only needs sudo on install if your installing to the default /usr/local I don't run sudo on any part of it at all... but I also install to a prefix that my user has full access to.