From: "Milan Stanojević" <milanst@gmail.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: sudo make install
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:56:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKR7PS8GpLq-5ONUtmFA47xajH5VeYcef0UKUFCKki-+TFe+OQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pp76wl1e.fsf@web.de>
Just use a different prefix that doesn't require root.
./configure --prefix=some-local-dir
make
make install
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that since some time, "make install" does compile stuff in the
> emacs/ source dir , just like "make". I remember that it only used to
> copy files into the installation target dirs.
>
> My question: when I want to "make install", I need to use "sudo". But
> after that operation, the emacs/ source dir now contains files owned by
> root. After that, I always need to be root to "make" Emacs. I don't
> want that, I still want to be able to "make" as a normal user.
>
> How do others handle this?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-14 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-14 19:46 sudo make install Michael Heerdegen
2015-04-14 19:56 ` Milan Stanojević [this message]
2015-04-14 20:06 ` Ludwig, Mark
2015-04-14 20:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-04-14 20:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-04-14 20:25 ` Milan Stanojević
2015-04-15 1:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-15 10:15 ` Martin
2015-04-15 10:25 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-04-15 10:55 ` tomas
2015-04-15 12:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-15 21:26 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-16 11:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-04-16 21:04 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-17 15:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-04-18 19:32 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-19 13:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-04-20 0:31 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-20 14:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-04-20 17:31 ` Bob Proulx
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