ports/76422: devel/automake ports fail to install when built as non-root
Ade Lovett
ade at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 8 21:06:28 UTC 2005
> The pre-install and post-install targets are not run with elevated
> privileges, so the mkdir commands in the pre-install target fail
> when trying to install as non-root (in other words, su seems to
> only be applied for do-install)
A quick scan of the ports tree seems to indicate that a significant
percentage of *all* ports appear to have this issue.
I can certainly go ahead and make the change to automake*, and even
autoconf* and libtool* at the same time, but these are only 8 ports out
of many thousands that currently require elevated privileges in
pre-install and post-install targets.
It may make considerably more sense to do a complete sweep of the tree
rather than piecemeal.
ports@ cc'd for a wider audience.
-aDe
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