[asterisk-scf-dev] [asterisk-dev] building asterisk-scf

[Marc Blanchet]

Le 2011-10-21 à 14:57, Kevin P. Fleming a écrit :

> 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.

oups, email automatic completion... now continuing on -scf-dev.

> 
>> 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 :-)

- you know I'm not talking about that...

- what I'm saying is that why for building asterisk-scf, we can't have all the building done within a user directory, as typical for many software, and only have the final make install be done by root? 

Marc.

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