On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:16:44 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > Given this invocation for a new installation of rakudo: > > perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-moar --prefix=/some/dir > > /some/dir needs to exist and belong to the user attempting the > installation. That usually forces the user to be root just to configure > and build rakudo. Then the build directory is polluted with root-owned > files. > > Clearly the configure and build steps need to be usable as an ordinary user > as most Linux packages are. Then the install command can require root so > that the desired directory can be created if necessary, and the correct > permissions created for the various files and directories as they are > copied into place. > > Until that problem is solved, the installation instructions need to detail > the current requirements of an installation outside the build directory.
This is the wrong queue for this ticket; please re-open at github's rakudo/star queue. Regards. -- Will "Coke" Coleda
