[mythtv-users] From panicked to puzzled

[Rick]

On 07/07/2015 02:38 AM, David Watkins wrote:
> 
>     I apologize for my lack of clarity.  I was fairly burned out when I
>     wrote the original post.  I've been building using mythtv source for
>     about 8 years or so.  This is the build process I follow:
> 
>     1) git update - For main mythtv source
>     2) run Configure (for me that means this command line:  ./configure
>     --prefix=/usr/local/mythtv.0.27 --disable-mythlogserver --enable-vdpau
>     --with-bindings=perl
>     3) make
>     4) make install (this is what I mean by install the binaries)
>     5) ldconfig as root (to update the cache of shared libraries)
> 
>     6) git update - for plugins
>     7) run configure : ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mythtv.0.27
>     --disable-mythgame --enable-mythbrowser --enable-mythzoneminder
>     --enable-mythnetvision --enable-m
>     ythnews --disable-mythweather
>     8) make
>     9) make install
>     10) ldconfig as root
> 
> 
> ... shouldn't you do step (9) as root also? 

> 
The target directory for the install is writable by the id doing the
install so root isn't needed.