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Mark D. Studebaker
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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:42:36 +0100 From: Haakon Riiser <haakon.riiser@fys.uio.no> To: sensors@Stimpy.netroedge.com Subject: lm_sensors 2.8.2 / DESTDIR / root The reason for this email is that I always try to avoid running Makefiles as root, even during 'make install'. Therefore, I always use the DESTDIR feature, when it's available. Until today, I always built i2c and lm_sensors by doing $ make $ make -i install DESTDIR=/foo $ cd /foo && su root && fix permissions/ownership && install The -i flag to make install is a kludge to avoid having to be root while installing to the DESTDIR, and it's only required because the files are installed with "-o root -g root". Using the -i flag is of course not a good idea, since more fatal errors can easily fly by undetected. Today, I upgraded to Linux 2.6.0, and tried a similar install procedure for lm_sensors, except that the make target is now "user" and the install target is "user_install". I now noticed that the DESTDIR variable is not used everywhere in "user_install", so I couldn't use the -i kludge anymore. Instead, I wrote a patch that removes the "-o root -g root" arguments to install everywhere, and I also tried to add DESTDIR to all files/directories installed. (The patch only applies to lm_sensors, not i2c, since only lm_sensors is required in Linux 2.6.0.) There's really no reason to say -o root -g root anyway, since if you do install directly with make install, you have to be logged in as root, and then the files will get the right ownership by default. Much of the point of installing to a temporary DESTDIR is that you don't have to be root, and that you can prepare the installation by hand. Fixing the ownership is trivial: chown -R root.root $DESTDIR git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@2189 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0