On 30/05/11 21:14, Andrew Stacey wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:01:31AM +0100, Bruno Girin wrote: >>> and the trivial point that both vala and shotwell installed runtime files >>> into /usr/local/share directories owned by root without permissions for >>> users to read or enter. >> >> This should not happen unless your root user has an unusual umask >> setting. You can check that by running the following in a command line: >> sudo umask > > In case it's of any help, I often run in to that problem because as a *user* > I have a restrictive umask (077) and when I do `sudo make install` then my > *user* umask gets applied. I have to keep remembering to relax the umask, to > 022, prior to running `sudo make install`. There's probably a neat trick to > fix this (but before knowing that a neat trick will fix it, one has to know > where the problem is, which is why I'm replying).
To avoid all that, I just simply install it in my own home directory
./configure --prefix=${HOME}/unstable/shotwell
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${HOME}/unstable/gexiv2/lib/pkgconfig
XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:${HOME}/unstable/
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
make
make install
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