Am 04.01.2013 01:21, schrieb Mutt: > The chgrp and chmod are not due to the permissions on /usr/local, but > rather the configure script has detected that the default mail spool for > your system requires the dotlock binary to have elevated permissions. > > You can either change the permissions on your default mail spool to world > writable, or use the --with-homespool option.
Would it be sensible to have this informational text added to the install-hook, for users to know why it fails? --with-homespool would also be a helpful addition to the "distcheck" mode, possibly through adding AM_DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=--with-homespool to the Makefile.am.
