From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: install: invalid user ‘root’
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:56:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87378k7wor.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH3JXcGi-ML6DvLSJHK+C3s1=pfHr9-A+C_cDf2BnQGY4dm11w@mail.gmail.com> (Dmitry Nikolaev's message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2017 23:28:56 +0300")
Hi,
Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com> skribis:
> Hi. I'm trying to build Xawtv in GuixSD to use my webcamera during
> screencasts. I wrote package defintion for xawtv, it passes configuration
> and build phases, but fails on install phase with error:
>
> /gnu/store/6908gy3pws0ccys49ni98idwnicchlr2-coreutils-8.26/bin/install:
> invalid user ‘root’
>
> What do I need to do to avoid this error?
Most likely the makefile does “install -o root …”, but there’s no “root”
user in the build environment.
To work around this, simply remove that “-o root” from the makefile,
along these lines:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/hurd.scm#n265
HTH,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-22 9:56 UTC|newest]
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2017-08-21 20:28 install: invalid user ‘root’ Dmitry Nikolaev
2017-08-22 9:56 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-08-22 16:57 ` Alex Kost
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