Re: ~/.../emacs/lib-src/blessmail owned by root?

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:10:03 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
    >> It is
    >> the only one I ever saw.  It must be related to sudo make install, the
    >> only sudo'ed command involved.  But it doesn't make sense to install
    >> files to my home dir where other users don't have access.
    >> 
    >> And I as user can't delete the file unless I use administrator
    >> privileges.
    >> 
    >> Don't you find this odd?

    Eli> It might be a bug of some sort, but then why only this file is owned
    Eli> by root?  AFAICT, "make install" installs it together with other
    Eli> files, so I don't understand ATM why only this file got its owner
    Eli> changed by sudo.

The top-level Makefile has:

install: actual-all install-arch-indep install-etcdoc install-arch-dep install-$(NTDIR) blessmail install-eln install-gsettings-schemas

and

blessmail: Makefile src
	$(MAKE) -C lib-src maybe-blessmail

so blessmail is built as part of running the 'install' target, but the
lib-src Makefile only does that when itʼs needed, which is why it ends
up as owned by root.

Itʼs not installed, but the lib-src Makefile will tell you if it needs
to be run via the maybe-blessmail and need-blessmail targets.

Robert
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