Installing MIT-K5 client libraries as non-root

[Mike Friedman]

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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 at 10:28 (+0530), Sachin Punadikar wrote:

> Did you tried the below option while running the configure script ? 
> Please try it. It will give you an option to install the libraries in 
> the location you desire. 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> By default, `make install' will install all the files in 
> `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/lib' etc.  You can specify an installation 
> prefix other than `/usr/local' using `--prefix', for instance 
> `--prefix=$HOME'. 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sachin,

This is not my problem.  I'm already using 'prefix=' to specify install 
directories to which I have write access.

The problem is that 'make install' wants to run 'install' (in my case 
'ginstall') with the '-o root' option, which means it's trying to change 
ownership of certain installed binaries to root.  Since I'm running this 
as a non-root user, I'm not allowed to change file ownerships at all.

I even tried editing the top-level Makefile to remove the '-o root'.  But 
the lower-level Makefiles still contained '-o root' and I don't feel like 
going into every subdirectory and editing the Makefiles, especially since 
I don't even know if this will solve the problem.

Mike

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