Re: [Gretl-users] Installation error on -gretl- 2015d
On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Clive Nicholas wrote:
Sorry for the delay in response: the weekend took over! See my code
and
(very long) output below:
clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
--enable-quiet-build --enable-openmp --enable-build-doc
You don't want to use "sudo" for any of the steps in a gretl build
(or git pull) except the final "make install". If you perform any of
the prior steps as the superuser you're thereby creating files that
you cannot modify "as yourself", so the build will run into
permissions problems such as the following:
clive@clivubu:~/gretl-git$ make
./builddate
Can't write to build.h
Makefile:103: recipe for target 'buildstamp' failed
The "sudo" in "sudo make install" is required (only) because at that
point you need to write to public file-space (under /usr/local by
default) for which you don't have write permission as an ordinary
user.
Allin Cottrell