On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > > > I'm testing configure passing '--prefix=....', and after building, I do > > $ su -c 'make install' > > > > But then, some files ('configure.log', 'RDict.db') are left with > > 'root:root' owner and group. If you want to build/rebuild again, this > > fails bad. > > > > And you know, using 'sudo' is not always a chance, as depending on > > 'sudo' configuration, it does not preserve the environment. > > I don't see configure.log - but I see build.log and default.log. These > should not cause conflict - but RDict.db does. > > Matt would have to check this issue. Ideally most of these files > should not be created during 'make install' > > As a hack - I can add os.remove('RDict.db') in config/installer.py I am for this. Matt > > Satish > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20081202/d0e1aeec/attachment.html>