From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Milan_Stanojevi=C4=87?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sudo make install Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:56:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87pp76wl1e.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429041431 19832 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2015 19:57:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs mailing list To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 14 21:57:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi6xK-00057V-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:57:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi6xJ-0007La-Iy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:57:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi6x7-0007LH-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:56:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi6x6-0000cw-1V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:56:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ig0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c05::230]:32818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yi6x5-0000cn-Rx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: by igbpi8 with SMTP id pi8so53912799igb.0 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:56:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=U9X3qADOTQNNDauocEDRptVbRdFN/XmUZ0PrFD3IrAM=; b=JcydY4bACKzcdv49NghKGMFtIk+ZgAbhvSnLAokL0qaq8ca3JUXx9tqWBzWOZ2ELYu s9ONtDYVyh1buoI+MLdx9E605TihCN6Sa9+R+IN0W+MpCOxNgKIcks+YyV3v+1ZvyugF zSADEQhGHFtCen3OexHPj9s4oOkIBXwD0XL7DZ97RhNHNKXQftOS/cKw6b4TrxMNX3bj lwCch+w2g36NtmGTlBP09T/98PjUSf03jwQdHBX+MAwhpn+RUVXBnT3Vdkn/arN6SN+A qOvSLF5RWmyS56d7pvYxh28YmTDsLU3xSkLwVyxTl6dKTDFuNaWnR7KpCq0/nMaJotPq oJkw== X-Received: by 10.50.117.4 with SMTP id ka4mr26448190igb.10.1429041415063; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.64.29.201 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:56:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87pp76wl1e.fsf@web.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c05::230 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103723 Archived-At: 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 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. >