On 04/06/10 04:38, Nick Rout wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:31 PM, agraham<agra...@g-b.net> wrote: >> On 04/06/10 03:21, Nick Rout wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard<jyaven...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> On 4 June 2010 11:29, agraham<agra...@g-b.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I like to install the entire MythTV build as a standard user (e.g. mtv), >>>>> therefore when building I use something like: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ./configure --prefix=/home/mtv >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> With the new 0.23 version, I get a permission denied error when doing >>>>> the >>>>> "make install" (everything builds fine) >>>>> >>>>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >>>>> ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/share/perl5' >>>>> mkdir /usr/local/share/perl5: Permission denied at >>>>> /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 483 >>>> >>>> I've only ever compiled mythtv as non-root, installing it in its own >>>> directory; yet, I've never seen this issue before, not even with the >>>> python or perl bindings.. >>> >>> Yes but who do you install it as? In fact there isn't usually a reson >>> to build as root, it's not particularly safe :) >>> >>> In any case I don't think the OP is strictly referring to compiling, >>> strictly speaking he is installing. If make install wants to put >>> something in '/usr/local/share/perl5' it might fail, either because >>> that directory might not exist (and $USER does not have permission to >>> mkdir in /usr/local/share/ ) or because once it exists $USER won't >>> have permission to write there. >>> >>> Is there an option to exclude installing (or building) the perl/python >>> bits? I don't know what that might break. >> >> It compiles and installs if I disable the perl bindings, but as you hint >> this will most probably break something. >> >> ./configure --prefix=/home/mtv --without-bindings=perl >> >> This looks like a bug to me as the pythin bindings get installed correctly >> (within the /home/mtv file-space) and previous versions of MythTV did not >> have this problem. >> >> Does anyone else see this problem? > > I doubt whether many people do it this way at all! > > Perhaps you need to diff the configure files between 0.22 and 0.23 and > see what has changed.
How else can you install it as non-root, not specifying --prefix will default to /usr/local which means you must be root to install it anyway. Albert. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
