On Nov 7, 2005, at 11:30, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Nov 7, 2005, at 5:02 AM, Daniel wrote:
On Nov 6, 2005, at 23:47, Darwin wrote:
I dont know if i am doing something wrong, or am just plain stupid.
I have downloaded and installed the apple developer pack onto my
mac, for use with Darwin 10.3.9. I wish to compile and install unix
applications, such as lynx, pine, and nmap. I have downloaded the
tarballs, untarred the files, ran ./configure and ./make, and
followed by a ./make install. However, the program does compile
correctly and i can run it locally (in my own home directory). The
make install does not install the program so all users can use it.
Any ideas?
And yes, i did an SU before i tried a ./make install.
The first thing that strikes me is that it wouldn't be "./make
install" -- it would only be "make install."
Are you sure it's not being installed? Or is it maybe being
installed into a directory you don't have in your path? Did you run
"rehash" after running "make install," so that the Terminal can find
the newly installed executable?
It's also "sudo make install", and I've compiled both pine and nmap
(along with a lot of other stuff) directly from source that way on all
my Macs.
It depends on how one does it. I personally run "sudo su" (same as
"sudo -s" I guess, but old habits die hard) and then do all of my
compiling as root, just as I do on Solaris and Linux.
SU is not a command, and su doesn't work on an out-of-the-box OS X
install, since root doesn't have a shell. If you need a root shell,
use sudo -s to get one.
Enabling root as a login on OSX can have unpredictable consequences.
(not so much if you only log in in Terminal, but if you log into the
System as Root lots of things can get messed up.)
Interesting. I personally log onto my Tiger (10.4.2) iMac as root, in
order to perform system backups. I've never had a problem with this,
and nothing odd has ever happened as a result. I did the same when it
was running Panther. On my PowerBook (Panther) and PowerMac (Tiger), I
usually use sudo instead of actually logging in as root.
Daniel
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