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Bug 636023 - make install fails without root permissions
make install fails without root permissions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Sawfish
Classification: Deprecated
Component: General
1.7.x
Other All
: Normal normal
: 3.0.x
Assigned To: sawfish-maint
sawfish-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-29 01:12 UTC by Eric Mangold
Modified: 2011-01-06 18:03 UTC
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Description Eric Mangold 2010-11-29 01:12:32 UTC 
Compiling from GIT sources works fine as a normal user, however installing under my home directory fails at this point:

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 sawfish-config.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/
/usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/sawfish-config.png': Permission denied

It should not attempt to write to system directories, and should either skip this file, or put it under prefix like everything else.

(I may see about working up a patch for this. Sawfish rules btw!)
Comment 1 Teika Kazura 2010-11-30 07:48:53 UTC 
Hi, Eric Mangold.

For the moment, open lisp/sawfish/cfg/Makefile.in, and change all (three) instances of
 /usr/share/
to
 $(DESTDIR)$(datadir)/

Thank you for reporting.

Teika kazura
Comment 2 Christopher Roy Bratusek 2011-01-06 18:03:32 UTC 
This was fixed in 1.8 cycle.