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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sudo make install
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:05:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr3rmnqxb.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pp76wl1e.fsf@web.de

> 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.

A "make install" right after "make" should not create/touch local files
(exactly for the reason you show).  So if you do get some root-owned
files even though you did a (non-root) "make" right before the "make
install", I recommend you M-x report-emacs-bug.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-15  1:05 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
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 [this message]
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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