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From: "Brett Bell" <brettuk@gmail.com>
To: <users@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 2:47 AM
Subject: Make install fails because it wants to write to directories i don't have access to
>I am having problems building the Subversion 1.1 tar ball
>
> I can successfully go throught the configure and make steps of the
> build process but the make install step fails as it's trying to write
> to a part of the file system I don't have rights to because I am
> trying to install Subversion in a shell account. Is there a way to
> overide the default so I can get make install to put all the files
> it's building into the areas I can write to?
>
> Here is the output I get:
>
> mkdir /usr/local/apr
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/apr': Permission denied
> mkdir /usr/local/apr/include
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/apr/include': No such file
> or directory
> mkdir /usr/local/apr/include/apr-0
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/apr/include/apr-0': No such
> file or directory
>
> kind regards
>
> Brett
I'd say you need to do one of the following:
log in as root to do the install
or
get a sysadmin to create the above directories and change ownership
(temporarily) for you to be able to write to them
or
edit (or ./configure) the makefiles to install elsewhere
My $.02
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Received on Sat Dec 18 17:34:11 2004