[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk make clean and make looping??

[asterisk at ropeguru.com]

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> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:21 -0500, Robert Webb wrote:
> > On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:34:40 -0600
> >   "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> > > Robert Webb wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Is this a bug in the make code or do I just need a new 
> brain today.
> > >> Which the latter is VERY possible.
> > > 
> > > It happens occasionally, but we've not been able to isolate the 
> > >cause. Every time someone has this problem, they blow away the 
> > >directory and re-do the checkout and it works fine, so 
> they move on 
> > >:-)
> > 
> > Well, I am not in a real big hurry to get this test box up and 
> > running. So I will do my best to try and figure out why 
> this might be 
> > hapenning. That is if the list promises to be patient with the noob 
> > questions I might have when trying to read through the script. At 
> > least at this point I know where MAKE bombed the first time so 
> > hopefully I can figure it out.
> 
> It is sometimes hard to adequately explain what is annoying 
> when questions are asked, but you seemed to ask your question 
> in an intelligent way. You explained what problems you 
> encountered, and you explained how you worked around them. 
> You proved you have some skills and reasoning ability. Your 
> solutions to your previous problems may shed light onto the 
> problem you are now facing.
> 
> I do wonder if you are getting into a permissions problem. Do 
> you do your make as root or a non privileged user? If you do 
> make as a non privileged user, could you have inadvertantly 
> issued a make after a package install where you where root? 
> If so, you current make clean and make will fail because it 
> can not overwrite the files it needs to, or delete other files.
> 
> In short, chown all the files to a user if trying to make as 
> a non privileged user, or swap to root and try again.

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Thanks Steven. I, like others, can many times go off the deep end for no
reason in repl;ying to people and also when posting myself, sometimes
forget those things that need to be included.

Back to the issue at hand...

Not sure that it is a permissions problem as I am compiling the code as
root. I know it is not the best thing to log in and run as root, but
since it is a test box and it gets wiped and reloaded quite often, I am
not that worried about it.

I will try to look into it further tonight, but I have some job KSA's to
write and need to get them done so I can mail out an application. SO I
will try and post what I can just as soon as I can look through the
scripts. As I said before though, I am by no means a programmer and will
probably ask some very basic questions. So please bear with me as I am
still learning.

Robert