Re: Reduced privileges install

Andrew Keller [off-list ref] writes:

make -C perl prefix='/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local' DESTDIR='' install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/users/students/ak4390/Downloads/git-1.7.2.3/perl'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/users/students/ak4390/Downloads/git-1.7.2.3/perl'
Warning: You do not have permissions to install into /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int at /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 85.

The DESTDIR='' is suspicious. It seems the prefix is not passed
properly in recursive "make" invocations, and perl tries to install
things in the default directory.

Kevin Ballard [off-list ref] writes:

Andrew Keller [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/users/students/ak4390/.local
$ make
$ make install

I admit, I'm not well-versed on the build system, but my impression
was that specifying --prefix in ./configure was indeed supposed to
propagate to a subsequent make and make install.

It does. I installed Git successfully without ever being root on
several machines.

In my case, it was GNU/Linux machines, so something may go wrong
because of a non-gnu system. Did you try compiling with gmake instead
of make?

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/