Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:22 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
One does not have to become root.
If one does want the software
installed as system software,
do some testing first.
Edit Makefile,
removing any .SILENT targets.
As an ordinary user,
make -n prefix=/opt 'CP=cp -i' install 2>&1 | tee makeno.out
Same as above. This won't work in most cases.
In this case, I'm not sure what "won't work" means.
Do you mean that it won't give one a good idea whether
something one doesn't want clobbered will get clobbered?
Possibly. A large proportion of projects use "install" rather than "cp"
in their Makefile "install" targets.
Paul.
