On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:49 +0400, "Konstantin Kolinko" <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/4/16 Gavin Beau <gavin.bauma...@palcare.com.au>: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I have built SVN from trunk. > > using the 1.6.16 deps archove for apr/apr-util/sqlite etc. > > > > I did; > > sudo sh ./autogen.sh > ~/Desktop/autogen_output.txt > > sudo ./configure > ~/Desktop/configure_output.txt > > sudo make > ~/Desktop/make_output.txt > > sudo make install > ~/Desktop/make_install_output.txt
Only 'make install' needs to be run as root. The only reason it needs root is to write to /usr/local; if your $prefix (as passed to configure) is writeable by you, then even that step doesn't need root.