some problems with 'make install'

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>
> > I'm testing configure passing '--prefix=....', and after building, I do
> > $ su -c 'make install'
> >
> > But then, some files ('configure.log', 'RDict.db') are left with
> > 'root:root' owner and group. If you want to build/rebuild again, this
> > fails bad.
> >
> > And you know, using 'sudo' is not always a chance, as depending on
> > 'sudo' configuration, it does not preserve the environment.
>
> I don't see configure.log - but I see build.log and default.log. These
> should not cause conflict - but RDict.db does.
>
> Matt would have to check this issue. Ideally most of these files
> should not be created during 'make install'
>
> As a hack - I can add os.remove('RDict.db') in config/installer.py


I am for this.

  Matt


>
> Satish
>
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