On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Yair Lenga wrote:

> I wanted to point out a possible bug in the installation procedure. After
> unpacking the .tar.gz file, I run the ocnfigure scripts, and tried to
> compile the code (as a regular user). I switched to 'root' to install the
> code into /usr/local/bin. However when I switched to 'root' I could not
> run the install target, since the 'config.h' file was not up-to-date.
> (The root user does not have write access to user home directories):

Ugha. I'm afraid this probably comes with using automake. The install target
is automatically generated and the fiddling with files like that are not my
choice.

Any automake-skilled person in the crowd with another opinion?

> I examines the Makefilested the code, and found out that I can solve the
> problem by explictly 'touching' the following files:

> touch config.h

How can that work? If I touch that file on my system, all the files that
#include it gets rebuilt, and that certainly will get files written.

> I will appreciate if you can fix this install issue for your next
> release.

I need to work on this, as I'd like a working way for all of us.

> Compiler warnings:

There are obvious problems in the source when it comes to size_t and ssize_t
etc. Linus is working on that part now.

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