[scribus] cmake && make && make install

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Tue May 31 11:32:26 UTC 2011


On 05/31/2011 05:44 AM, Owen wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:29:30 -0400
> Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> This of course is the sequence that we dutifully advise for building
>> Scribus.
>>
>> What I have noticed is that one can skip running 'make' separately,
>> and just run
>>
>> cmake -DWANT_yadayadayada...
>>
>> then
>>
>> make install
>>
>> in which case make first compiles, then installs, and I can't really
>> tell a difference.
>>
>> Is there any reason to run 'make' all by itself?
>
> Here is my pitch on the matter.
>
> make is run as a user.
>
> As long as the install goes in a user directory then there should be no
> problem.
>
> But if it goes in a root directory like /opt, then you need su or sudo
> to install.
>
> Ok, so run make install as root, then that kind of changes all the
> permissions in the build directory. Maybe no big deal, but my
> preference is to have user files owned by the user.
>
Ah, yes, forgot about that since I'm always putting svn versions into my 
/home directory...

Greg



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