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

[PawelCarqowski]

Alan Lord writes:
 > PawelCarqowski 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
 > > make[2]: *** [install-doc-omf] Error 1
 > > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/misc/ekiga/ekiga-svn/ekiga/help'
 > > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
 > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/misc/ekiga/ekiga-svn/ekiga/help'
 > > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
 > > 
 > > I do not see eny more prefix'es to use below. ONLY PREFIX and EPREFIX are used.
 > > 
 > > $ ./configure --help:
 > > 
 > > Fine tuning of the installation directories:
 > >   --bindir=DIR           user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
 > >   --sbindir=DIR          system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
 > >   --libexecdir=DIR       program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
 > >   --datadir=DIR          read-only architecture-independent data [PREFIX/share]
 > >   --sysconfdir=DIR       read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
 > >   --sharedstatedir=DIR   modifiable architecture-independent data [PREFIX/com]
 > >   --localstatedir=DIR    modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
 > >   --libdir=DIR           object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
 > >   --includedir=DIR       C header files [PREFIX/include]
 > >   --oldincludedir=DIR    C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
 > >   --infodir=DIR          info documentation [PREFIX/info]
 > >   --mandir=DIR           man documentation [PREFIX/man]
 > > 
 > > 
 > > have You got any ideas on how to fix this? 
 > > 
 > > Regards,
 > > Pawel
 > 
 > I haven't tried this but why not just configure it with a normal prefix 
 > like /usr and then make it, then do a
 > 
 > make DESTDIR=/home/misc/ekiga/site-usr install
 > 
 > That should install a whole new tree under your site-usr directory.
 > 
 > On another note, --locatstatedir normally points to var so you might 
 > need to add that switch if you want to do it the "long way"
 > 
 > HTH
 > 
 > Alan
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I'll try to use "make DESTDIR=/home/misc/ekiga/ekiga-site install" way.
Regards,
Pawel