[mythtv-users] installing MythTV 0.23 as non-root - almost

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 4 June 2010 11:29, agraham <agraham at g-b.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I like to install the entire MythTV build as a standard user (e.g. mtv),
>> therefore when building I use something like:
>>
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/home/mtv
>>
>>
>> With the new 0.23 version, I get a permission denied error when doing the
>> "make install" (everything builds fine)
>>
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> ERROR: Can't create '/usr/local/share/perl5'
>> mkdir /usr/local/share/perl5: Permission denied at
>> /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 483
>
> I've only ever compiled mythtv as non-root, installing it in its own
> directory; yet, I've never seen this issue before, not even with the
> python or perl bindings..

Yes but who do you install it as? In fact there isn't usually a reson
to build as root, it's not particularly safe :)

In any case I don't think the OP is strictly referring to compiling,
strictly speaking he is installing.  If make install wants to put
something in '/usr/local/share/perl5' it might fail, either because
that directory might not exist (and $USER does not have permission to
mkdir in /usr/local/share/ ) or because once it exists $USER won't
have permission to write there.

Is there an option to exclude installing (or building) the perl/python
bits? I don't know what that might break.