Re[4]: Intriqued by Bsd 4.4

From: Keith Matthews (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 16:22:32 EDT


On 15 Oct 2001 21:48:50 +0200 Simon J Mudd <Simon J Mudd <>> wrote:

> I haven't really had time to look at this and see if it requires
> little changes to my current spec file. If the root build requirement
> can be changed with little impact on my spec file then I'm certainly
> willing to make the change.

You may not be able to. There seems to be something in rpm itself
that says 'if you install in a directory only writable by root you
must compile as root'. I was playing with this the other day, that's
how I found out about KDE. (Of course I might have missed something,
so it is worth trying).

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