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author | lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net> | 2008-04-06 23:04:44 +0000 |
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committer | lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net> | 2008-04-06 23:04:44 +0000 |
commit | 404ef9b8b7bc57a0eedf0cfe321b9a49643aecd3 (patch) | |
tree | e7b9acd324e6329c6d4d340ee16138803a443022 /doc | |
parent | 8a5ffc5c6294786ad70f7a8fdd7606f411690ce9 (diff) |
Don't hard-code the user and group when doing an install: instead use
whatever the current user/group is. If you wish to override, edit the
makefile or override the INSTALL_CMD_* variables on the command line.
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/building.tex | 22 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/doc/building.tex b/doc/building.tex index c5794019c..2cb1d0723 100644 --- a/doc/building.tex +++ b/doc/building.tex @@ -138,22 +138,12 @@ this by using the \texttt{--prefix} argument to \verb|./configure.pl --prefix=/opt <other arguments>| -On Unix, the makefile has to decide who should own the files once they are -installed. By default, it uses \texttt{root:root}, but on some systems (for -example, MacOS X), there is no \texttt{root} group. Also, if you don't have -root access on the system you will want them to be installed owned by something -other than root (like yourself). You can override the defaults at install time -by setting the \texttt{OWNER} and \texttt{GROUP} variables from the command -line. - -\verb|make OWNER=lloyd GROUP=users install| - -On some systems shared libraries might not be immediately visible to the -runtime linker. For example, on Linux you may have to edit -\filename{/etc/ld.so.conf} and run \texttt{ldconfig} (as root) in order for new -shared libraries to be picked up by the linker. An alternative is to set your -\texttt{LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH} shell variable to include the directory that the -Botan libraries were installed into. +On some systems shared libraries might not be immediately visible to +the runtime linker. For example, on Linux you may have to edit +\filename{/etc/ld.so.conf} and run \texttt{ldconfig} (as root) in +order for new shared libraries to be picked up by the linker. An +alternative is to set your \texttt{LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH} shell variable +to include the directory that the Botan libraries were installed into. \subsection{MS Windows} |