Re: /usr/local/ etc...

2003-10-02 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Mary Felkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mf> I don't know if it's a bug or not, but when I use make it keeps mf> tying to write things into /usr/local/ into which I mf> don't have write permission. So, it fails. GNU make never tries to write anything anywhere. It doesn't even use any tem

/usr/local/ etc...

2003-10-02 Thread Mary Felkin
Hi, I don't know if it's a bug or not, but when I use make it keeps tying to write things into /usr/local/ into which I don't have write permission. So, it fails. If make is supposed to make it easy to install programs, why can't it either install (or compile or whatever) the files into the direct