Closed Bug 278226 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

"make install" installs nspr-config in /usr/local/bin though prefix=$HOME/mozilla

Categories

(NSPR :: NSPR, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: vincent-moz, Assigned: wtc)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041208 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041208 I've just compiled Mozilla with "make -f client.mk" and "ac_add_options --prefix=$HOME/mozilla" in my .mozconfig file (as usual), but: dixsept:...oz-source/mozilla> make install /usr/bin/make -C nsprpub real_install DESTDIR= libdir=/usr/local/lib/mozilla-1.8a6 includedir=/usr/local/include/mozilla-1.8a6/nspr make[1]: Entering directory `/home/lefevre/software/moz-source/mozilla/nsprpub' cd config; /usr/bin/make -j1 real_install make[2]: Entering directory `/home/lefevre/software/moz-source/mozilla/nsprpub/config' ../config/./nsinstall -t -m 0755 nspr-config /usr/local/bin ../config/./nsinstall: cannot create /usr/local/bin/nspr-config: Permission denied make[2]: *** [real_install] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/lefevre/software/moz-source/mozilla/nsprpub/config' make[1]: *** [real_install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lefevre/software/moz-source/mozilla/nsprpub' make: *** [install] Error 2 Fortunately, I didn't try that under root, otherwise system files could have been overwritten! Reproducible: Always
Assignee: general → wtchang
Component: Installer → NSPR
Product: Mozilla Application Suite → NSPR
QA Contact: bugzilla → wtchang
Version: unspecified → other
The problem was due to a .mozconfig file in the tarball (as noted in bug 278253), with the consequence that my personal .mozconfig wasn't taken into account.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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