Re: elprototypo-0.0.1 gdm Makefile error

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 19:21, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Bob Kashani">
> 
> > > > It seems to fail during install of /etc/pam.d/gdmsetup?
> > > 
> > > > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/etc/pam.d/gdmsetup'
> > > 
> > > Only root can write there
> > 
> > hehe...The question isn't why it can't write to /etc. I'm not installing
> > as root so obviously I don't have write permission to /etc, that was a
> > no brainer. :)
> 
> (Odd that this doesn't fail for me, I will rebuild and look more closely;
> which distro are you building on?)

I'm building on RH9.

> > The question is why --with-pam-prefix= is messing with $(sysconfdir).
> 
> Because that's the only way to make it work, but if it's going to break
> things for some people, then I'll figure something else out. Or, perhaps
> I'll shift gdm into another set (even though it's in the Desktop release)
> because it's not all that useful in GARNOME. ;-)

Yeah, I just realized that after I posted. I guess moving gdm out of
Desktop is the best thing.

Strange that this hasn't thrown an error for other people.

Bob

> - Jeff
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