unable to compile courier

Kok Wei, Koh kokwei@eXtropia.com
Mon Nov 5 01:16:00 GMT 2001


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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