I submitted a PR yesterday in response to this thread that fixes `sudo make install` to drop the root privs for everything except the actual installation: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/17009
-Kevin > On Sep 5, 2014, at 5:00 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Brian Anderson <bander...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> Thanks for the report. It's probably >> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/13728. This is an easy first bug to >> fix if somebody wants to jump on it. >> > > Thanks for that link. I had some minor surgery yesterday, in the > morning, and was a bit "tipsy" the rest of the day. Including when I > sent the message. Which, somewhat, explains the poor grammar and > spelling. But only somewhat. I will look at those issues in github > before asking questions again, just to be sure that I'm not wasting > anybody's time. In this particular case, the solution, for me, is a > simple "sudo find" to chown the files. I might even be good enough to > figure out how to _properly_ do that during the "make install" > processing. If I do, I'll look up how to submit a change. I imagine it > is in the documentation somewhere. And, obviously from posting a gist, > I have a github account that I can use so that the maintainers could > just do a pull from my copy. > > OOPS, time to go. > > > -- > There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! > Genghis Khan > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
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