From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: sudo make install Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:05:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87pp76wl1e.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429060226 22806 80.91.229.3 (15 Apr 2015 01:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 01:10:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 15 03:10:20 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 1YiBqM-0000jc-Fp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58402 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YiBqL-0007cW-Oz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:10:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38519) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YiBqB-0007aP-TY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YiBq8-0005yl-N8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YiBq8-0005xJ-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YiBq7-0000cl-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 23-91-157-11.cpe.pppoe.ca ([23.91.157.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:10:02 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 23-91-157-11.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2015 03:10:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23-91-157-11.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/GJnlDwxwfkbcd8NX6os36Byuok= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:103730 Archived-At: > 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