[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Update Makefile to ensure has root privs
Diego Biurrun
diego at biurrun.de
Tue Jun 18 12:11:16 CEST 2002
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:20:08AM +0100, Samuel Liddicott wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:28:49 +0200 (CEST) Sylvain Petreolle
> >
> > > install: $(ALL_PRG)
> > > + @echo "Following task requires root privs. If it fails make
> > > sure to be root or
> >
> > This is not always true, for example if I want to install in ~/software...
>
> Needing root for a build is uncommon; why?
You do not need to be root to build mplayer. For 'make install' all you
need is write privileges on the destination directory, as it says in the
README.
Thanks for taking the time to try to improve mplayer. I look forward to
more contributions from you.
Regards
Diego
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