Re: /usr/local/ etc...

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Mary Felkin <address@hidden> writes:

  mf> I don't know if it's a bug or not, but when I use make it keeps
  mf> tying to write things into /usr/local/<something> into which I
  mf> don't have write permission. So, it fails.

GNU make never tries to write anything anywhere.  It doesn't even use
any temporary files.

If things are being written to /usr/local/<something> when you run make,
then the makefiles you're using must be doing it.  This is not something
that is a problem with GNU make, just as a bug in some source code is
not the fault of the compiler.

I suggest you read the documentation that comes with the software you're
trying to build to see how to convince it to write its files somewhere
other than /usr/local.

Good luck!

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