# New Ticket Created by Tom Browder # Please include the string: [perl #131708] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131708 >
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.
