[asterisk-dev] building asterisk-scf

[Andrew Latham]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 01:26 PM, Marc Blanchet wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>  following instructions on
>> "https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/TOP/Building+-+Linux" for a
>> clean-new-minimal-install Fedora14, it stopped with:
>
> This should go on the asterisk-scf-dev list.
>
>> cd ice
>> cd cpp
>> make install
>> Creating /opt/Ice-3.4.2...
>> mkdir: cannot create directory '/opt/Ice-3.4.2': Permission denied
>> cd ../py
>> make install
>> Creating /opt/Ice-3.4.2...
>> mkdir: cannot create directory '/opt/Ice-3.4.2': Permission denied
>> cd java
>> make install
>> complaining about the non-existence of ../cpp/bin/...
>>
>> Is the build process requires root priv to install in /opt? does not make
>> sense to me. Or are instructions incomplete?
>
> That's up to your Linux distribution; in general, yes, root permission is
> required to install software outside of your home directory. The same
> situation applies installing Ice on Windows; it must be done with
> administrator privileges.
>
> I suppose we could add comments on the wiki pages to tell you to either
> build as root or use 'sudo', but at some point we have to assume some basic
> knowledge on the part of the person reading the instructions :-)
>
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I have had some success building in Linux UML servers under a user.
Its great for labs.

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