From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#53534: 28.0.91; on netbsd 'gmake install' outputs 'find: chown: No such file or directory' Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:26:36 -0500 Message-ID: <5wr18vdsw3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <83zgnjgoig.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38480"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cc: Van Ly , 53534@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 05:27:20 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nCZtw-0009t6-Dg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2022 05:27:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38360 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCZtu-0006mw-TA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:27:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41968) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCZte-0006li-IK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:27:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57829) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCZte-0000UH-2q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:27:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nCZtd-0005RB-U6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:27:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 04:27:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 53534 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 53534-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B53534.164317120720874 (code B ref 53534); Wed, 26 Jan 2022 04:27:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 53534) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jan 2022 04:26:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50732 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nCZtO-0005Qc-UY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:26:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41172) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1nCZtM-0005QM-9p for 53534@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:26:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=52992 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCZtG-0000S8-Iu; Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:26:38 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:To: From; bh=WWDPYxKcMVzEYSKdGzCzvlHSsDCBDJk3r3sIouZrz+w=; b=ddnqoe6DdUu+tEfJenOg sOznGK1F9/EVvbKBY6s1mxmMIx4FxcQkUHDu4kOLaPv7xAY/YvO1ty7sCyD2Ow/bP3sYm9D2t6w6L 4E5j7vbKWJak3dZIyG+/5l8zsZOoFwYkpAuKawFTchiHHYofIq60Kt+CSF5Yji50mdvdzQr1tSzCq ApV8HVmfrrGeSCaNu1dGKMjjOHg1d/YLsRN7oh8Yspw7DmHwaqxz/Q/9uERlbADAxAxRSTjsKyIuP aRMmulnKhn1kpIUHZa0Pjeh45AzaRU68J2nStorfTmIvnahPSat6KEBP5/k40Vr2vrKTQrz5m94eW mIGnK98+EHPG5g==; Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nCZtF-0000Z6-1a; Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:26:37 -0500 X-Spook: ammunition ADIU AUTODIN Rand Corporation lock picking X-Ran: /d6i%+*LVt37x`hvm30r@d$t*j=w5z,q/?8u2kxqB&c{s}4OQ>@&%)Am!!C<"FA,;q (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2022 05:32:55 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:225239 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Users on NetBSD cannot invoke the 'chown' command? Presumably it is not in the default PATH of non-root users; eg perhaps it is /sbin/chown. On GNU/Linux, non-root users normally cannot chown things (to other users). It's not obvious to me that these venerable chowns in the Makefile are useful. Apart from them being no-ops for non-root installs (apart from possible group changes), LOGNAME (which is the first choice for setting $installuser) has different values in `su` and `su -`. So the ownership of the emacs installation will vary according to how su was invoked. I guess they are to deal with tar defaulting to --same-owner for root.