Re: RFC: don't ask users to do 'sudo make install'

Subject: Re: RFC: don't ask users to do 'sudo make install'

Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:52:35 -0400

To: R.M.Krug@gmail.com

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: David Bremner


On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:54:05 +0100, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting. I assume, I have to do
> 
> ./configure
> make
> make debian-snapshot

Just "make debian-snapshot" should work if you have the packages
dpkg-dev and fakeroot installed.

> dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
> debuild: fatal error at line 1348:
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
> make: *** [debian-snapshot] Error 29

Is this all of your output? It's a pretty generic error saying
dpkg-buildpackage didn't work. If there is no other output, then I guess
you might be missing dpkg-buildpackage.

d

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