Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org> writes:

> Yes, running "sudo make install" is a nightmare. sudo clears the path,
> and the git command is not found by the make invoked with root
> permissions. This changes the version string that gets compiled into
> the executable, which finally triggers a complete rebuild under
> root. Sad...

In the meantime, would it help to intall as yourself under DESTDIR
set to where you can write into, and then limit the potential
damange done while pretending to be a privileged user to "cp -R" (or
"tar cf" in $DESTDIR piped to "tar xf" in /)?

It appears that some dependencies are screwed up around "perl"
related things, which may want to get fixed.  I agree that "make &&
make install" that runs two 'make' under the same environment and
user shouldn't (re)build anything during the latter 'make', but we
somehow seem to do so.

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