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unable to compile courier
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- Subject: unable to compile courier
- From: "Kok Wei, Koh" <kokwei at eXtropia dot com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:16:15 +0800
I installed the latest version of cygwin on my windows 2000 machine tried
to install the courier mail server. I untarred the source distribution and
got /src/courier-0.35.1.20011104
I then tried to run ./configure but at a certain point of configuration, it
returned me the following message:
configure: warning: === Do not compile Courier as root. Compile
configure: warning: === Courier as a non-root user then su to
configure: warning: === root before running make install. You must now
configure: warning: === remove this entire directory and then extract the
configure: warning: === source code from the tarball as a non-root user
configure: warning: === and rerun the configure script. If you have read
configure: warning: === the INSTALL file you should have known this. So
configure: warning: === you better read INSTALL again
configure: error: aborted.
I tried logging out of windows, and login as a normal user I created named
"install" who's assigned in the group "users". I ran ./configure again and
it gave me the same error message. Anybody knows why a user is always
treated as root? Any help greatly appreciated.
Kok Wei
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