Build warnings, and install problems.

[Mike A. Harris]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Ben Elliston wrote:

>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:10:05 +1100 (EST)
>From: Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
>To: Mike A. Harris <mharris@opensourceadvocate.org>
>Cc: Source Navigator List <sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>Subject: Re: Build warnings, and install problems.
>
>   The install section follows instructions either Mo, Ian or you sent
>   me..  It doesn't work though.  I don't want to compile as root on this
>   system, so I can't do a test install other than as an ordinary user,
>   and it doesn't work for me.  I don't see why the install section would
>   require me to have write access to /opt/ since it shouldn't be putting
>   things there during RPM build install time, only at package install
>   time.
>
>Forgetting RPM for a moment, are you able to build/install from the shell?

As non-root yes, but only if I put /home/mharris/source-nav as
the prefix of course.

I haven't tested if the program actually works or not yet though.


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