On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:13:12 +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> On Sun 08 Mar 2009 at 15:32:46 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>> However, trying to do a make install on build_GarminDev, which
>> contains qlandkarte, I got an error :
>>
>> CMake Error at src/cmake_install.cmake:36 (FILE):
>> file Problem setting permissions on file
>> "/usr/include/garmin/IDevice.h"
>>
>> Fwiw, I did a chown -R on that, and make install ran.
>>
>> What is bothering me is finding permission problems buried way
>> down deep in new stuff.
>
> Well, normally, the installation procedures are run as root (the
> superuser), who owns /usr/include/ and most other installed files. You
> can "get around" that by chowning more and more files/directories to
> make them owned by you, but then you lose the advantage of the different
> owners. It means you could now do something bad to those files by
> accident, and not be protected by the lack of permission to do so.
Iiuc, the trouble is that I'm swinging too big a hammer. Right?
So I ought to chown all of /usr/include back to root -- and then do what
about the permission trouble? (I had tried doing make install both as
root and as user, and failed with both, though I see I neglected to say
so.)
I never have been able to get my head around the details of
permissions. They're like grub: the concept is plain enough, but every
attempt to adjust details (with chmod? or is there a chperm??) gets me
snarled up like a bug in a web.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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