[Ekiga-list] ekiga - svn. installing as non-root user fails.

Julien Puydt jpuydt at free.fr
Mon Oct 29 21:48:40 UTC 2007


David Mohr a écrit :
> On 10/29/07, PawelCarqowski <paulino90 at tenbit.pl> wrote:
>> Hallo group members
>>
>> I'm trying to install (with make install) ekiga as non-root user to some directory my user has access to.
>>
>> I configured ekiga with following parameters:
>>
>> $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/misc/ekiga/site-usr --exec-prefix=/home/misc/ekiga/site-usr --sysconfdir=/home/misc/ekiga/site-etc --with-ptlib-dir=/home/misc/ekiga/site-usr --with-opal-dir=/home/misc/ekiga/site-usr
>>
>> config and make went smoothly. "make install" went quite far. It failed on:
>>
>> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ekiga-pt_BR.omf /home/misc/ekiga/site-usr/share/omf/ekiga/ekiga-pt_BR.omf
>> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ekiga-uk.omf /home/misc/ekiga/site-usr/share/omf/ekiga/ekiga-uk.omf
>> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ekiga-sv.omf /home/misc/ekiga/site-usr/share/omf/ekiga/ekiga-sv.omf
>> scrollkeeper-update -p /var/lib/scrollkeeper -o /home/misc/ekiga/site-usr/share/omf/ekiga
>> /var/lib/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_docs: Permission denied
> 
> It looks to me like a bug in the Makefile because
> `scrollkeeper-update' is still referring to /var when it probably
> should be using $PREFIX/var or maybe the localstatedir. This might be
> an easy fix to do yourself, just look where scrollkeeper-update is
> called.

If that's something that simple, we'll gladly have feedback about it to 
apply the fix to svn trunk.

Thanks,

Snark on #ekiga



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