From: Jon Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:50:50 -0500
Run configure and make as an unprivileged user, and then run make install as root, IF necessary. (which it probably is, but give it a shot as unprivileged first.) this advice can be extended also to "make install", if the installation directories are not "system directories". the approach is to create "~/local" (in my case, this resolves to "/home/ttn/local") and configure for, install into, and evaluate safely, software under that directory. "safely" because you need not worry about damaging the system dirs due to the fact that you can completely avoid being root. one-time setup (suitable for ~/.bashrc or the like): export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH building software: cd [directory where source is expanded from the tarball] ./configure --prefix ~/local [other configure options...] make make check make install make installcheck note: in the one-time setup, there is $HOME instead of ~, but the idea is the same. of course there is a downside: software that presumes to be installed in a system directory. hopefully, those will be few. thi _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user
