Re: [Caml-list] ANN: CamlPDF 1.7

[Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013, oliver wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 06:17:19PM +0200, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:
> > Looks like Oliver installed as root, and maybe there was a restrictive
> > umask. In that case, setting a better umask (e.g. umask 002) before
> > "make install" would be the solution. But that's the user's problem,
> > IMHO.
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, of course I installed as root (via sudo).
> Umask might be the reason, yes.
> And I also had that problem with some other libraries.

It's a fairly common mistake. It's not very dangerous, until you change
your libc that is. Installing through "su" or without the umask is the
right way to do it.

> An installation can also set the
> permissions of installed files accordingly to what is needd.
> This might be added for this kind of install procedure.

It's better to just use the root account, with the right perms (which is
the default) since you'll never get full coverage.

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Adrien Nader