Re: sudo make install

["Milan Stanojević" <milanst@gmail.com>]

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.
>