Re: Makefile install target does a lot of work

2007-06-28 Thread Darren Freeman
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 11:38 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > The fix is to let root run a > "chown -R your_username *" in the top build directory. > After that, you own all the files and can compile without root's help again. You got it! Solved, thanks. I was wondering why I had to wait so long afte

Re: Makefile install target does a lot of work

2007-06-28 Thread Helge Hafting
Darren Freeman wrote: Hi all, why does "make install" under Linux have so much work to do? It seems to be linking and building docs etc. Surely this stuff is meant to be done by "make". Since I have to run "make install" as root, I generally prefer not to have actual processing being done here.

Re: Makefile install target does a lot of work

2007-06-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Darren" == Darren Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darren> I'm far from an expert on what a makefile should do under each Darren> target, I'm just commenting on the overall volume of work Darren> being done by the install target. There are a lot of commands passing by, but basically thi

Re: Makefile install target does a lot of work

2007-06-27 Thread Darren Freeman
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 07:45 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Darren" == Darren Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Darren> Hi all, why does "make install" under Linux have so much work > Darren> to do? It seems to be linking and building docs etc. > > Darren> Surely this stuff is m

Re: Makefile install target does a lot of work

2007-06-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Darren" == Darren Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darren> Hi all, why does "make install" under Linux have so much work Darren> to do? It seems to be linking and building docs etc. Darren> Surely this stuff is meant to be done by "make". Since I have Darren> to run "make install" as ro

Makefile install target does a lot of work

2007-06-27 Thread Darren Freeman
Hi all, why does "make install" under Linux have so much work to do? It seems to be linking and building docs etc. Surely this stuff is meant to be done by "make". Since I have to run "make install" as root, I generally prefer not to have actual processing being done here. Have fun, Darren