Re: libtool-1.5.18 -- installed files owned by non-root user

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 05:29:40PM CEST:
> > (3) Finally as root I did "make install". Due to the way this works, some of
> > the files (those installed under ${prefix}/share/libtool) were still owned
> > by me instead of root. VERY UNCOOL, please fix.
>
> Acknowledged.  Hrmpf.  I don't like the whole dancing around we have
> in place in order to preserve timestamps on the libltdl files. ....

Incidentally, that kind of "dancing around" is in no way unique to libtool.

> ....  We
> should be able to have rely on an $INSTALL program which does this
> for us (and also the user might want to override some of the INSTALL*
> variables anyway; or need to use his `install' which preserves some
> extended attributes like for selinux..).
>
> Wouldn't it be easiest to amend install-sh with this functionality?
> At least we can't just chown to root, the install user might not be
> root but might still be different from the build user.  :-/

An install-sh option "-p" (as for coreutils install) would certainly help.

> Suggestions welcome,

At the moment, I use a shell script (bash) which does something like this:

        pkg=libtool
        prefix=/usr/local
        ../$src/configure --prefix=$prefix <more_options> || exit
        make || exit
        make check || exit
        make install-strip || exit
        [ `id -u` == 0 ] && chown -R root: $prefix/share/$pkg

Peter