Re: Bug: Install from .tar.xz fails without write permission on /usr/local/share/man/man3

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 06:30:18PM +0200, ml...@posteo.de wrote: > I was trying to build git 2.9.5 as a normal user, as I have no root access > on a cluster with outdated software. > > The build fails, unless I change the PREFIX=/usr/local line in > per/perl.mak:80 to a folder where I have write

Re: Bug: Install from .tar.xz fails without write permission on /usr/local/share/man/man3

Hi, On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 6:30 PM, wrote: > > I was trying to build git 2.9.5 as a normal user, as I have no root access > on a cluster with outdated software. > > The build fails, unless I change the PREFIX=/usr/local line in > per/perl.mak:80 to a folder where I have write permission. >

Bug: Install from .tar.xz fails without write permission on /usr/local/share/man/man3

Hi, I was trying to build git 2.9.5 as a normal user, as I have no root access on a cluster with outdated software. The build fails, unless I change the PREFIX=/usr/local line in per/perl.mak:80 to a folder where I have write permission. Apparently, perl.mak does not honour the --prefix=