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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kdepim (CVS HEAD): "/usr/bin/install" is being called while
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwix () iway ! na>
Date:       2004-12-30 8:43:42
Message-ID: 200412301043.42543.uwix () iway ! na
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On Wednesday 29 December 2004 15:53, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> Hello, Everyone
> I have had this problem before with another (can't remember which) project
> I compile from source.  On a completely fresh download of kdepim from CVS
> HEAD, for some reason, "/usr/bin/install" is being called while I am
> running "make".  As a result, I get this error:
> installing ./libkdepim/kdepimmacros.h
> /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
> `/usr/local/kde-cvs/include/kdepimmacros.h': Permission denied
> Error creating /usr/local/kde-cvs/include/kdepimmacros.h. Exit status 1.
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>
> I just su'd into root and I am going to try to run the same commands I used
> as a regular user to compile kdepim.......
> While we are waiting, in the past, when I got this error when running
> "make", if I would log in as root, everything would compile fine.  Also,
> when I would run make install (instead of it being run "FOR" me),
> everything would install just fine.

You can compile everything as a normal user but if you want to install it 
system wide you need to be root because the files the install process is 
going to overwrite usually aren't world writable.

Uwe

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