Re: GARNOME 2.9.4 (libgnomesu and gnome-system monitor)

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:26 +0100, Vincent Rubiolo wrote:
> Hello Bob,
> 
> Bob Kashani wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 15:23 +0100, Vincent Rubiolo wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > The problem is that libgnomesu requires root access to do a 'setuid
> > root' (i.e. chown root) for certain files. If you don't have root access
> > then libgnomesu will fail to install and your build will stop. The only
> > solution for now is to remove g-s-m and libgnomesu from desktop if you
> > don't have root access.
> Thanks for your concern. Yes, I am aware of that. I simply would not 
> expect a 'make garchive' have any problem as it does not install 
> anything, merely fetching+checksumming the sources.
> However, as I look at my logs, it seems the 'install' target is executed 
> when doing a 'make garchive' hence the problem.

That actually is a bug and should be fixed. I probably should have used
pre-configure instead of pre-fetch. Will fix it in next release. :)

> I am then going to read in extenso the GAR architecture page 
> (http://www.lnx-bbc.org/garchitecture.html) as I still don't understand 
> many things about it (or are they counter-intuitive ?;)

Reading is always a good idea. :)

Bob

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Bob Kashani
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