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.

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