I'm back a bit from the tip of the CVS tree, so this might not
be current, but as of around 8 October, installing as root gets
in the way of later operations.  I think this is an artifact
of having Perl in the build.

I did a 'su root' and a 'make install', then as my normal user
self, attempted to do the regression tests.  They failed and
left the attached file in install.log.  It points at a problem
with permissions on a file left behind by the 'make install'
in the Perl stuff.

BTW, I'm back from the tip because of instability when I started
looking at this stuff.  Is it stable enough to install and run
now?

++ kevin


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Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:58:23 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@pacbell.net>
Problem with installing as root
Kevin O'Gorman writes:

> I did a 'su root' and a 'make install', then as my normal user
> self, attempted to do the regression tests.  They failed and
> left the attached file in install.log.  It points at a problem
> with permissions on a file left behind by the 'make install'
> in the Perl stuff.

The Perl interface build is a big, ugly hack.  I'm going to modify the
regression tests to omit the Perl directory when creating its temporary
install, but replacing the hack is still a bonus project for someone.

> BTW, I'm back from the tip because of instability when I started
> looking at this stuff.  Is it stable enough to install and run
> now?

Probably not wildly more stable than, say, a week ago.

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Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:40:16 +0200 (CEST)
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Re: Problem with installing as root