Re: Reduced privileges install

On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote:

Kevin Ballard [off-list ref] writes:

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Andrew Keller [off-list ref] writes:

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$ ./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?

Just did.  There is no change in the result.  A website also suggested disabling curl support, and defining INSTALL as /usr/ucb/install.  No change.  The install target is very insistent on installing into /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int.

~ Andrew Keller