Hi ,
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I’m trying to install SDL on my home directory (since I don’t have write
permission on root in the school machine). I changed “prefix” in Makefile to my
home directory, and “make” was run successfully. But then I got this error in
"make install":
mkdir -p – . /usr/local/lib
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libSDLmain.a /usr/local/lib/libSDLmain.a
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libSDLmain.a’:
Permission denied
How do I get around with this?
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As you can tell, I’m very new to linux. How do I compile the sample programs in
"test" subdirectory in SDL’s source pack?
Thanks!!
Will
As you can tell, I’m very new to linux. How do I compile the sample
programs in “test” subdirectory in SDL’s source pack?
cd test
./configure
make
should work… (under OSX I got a problem with /usr/local/bin/sdl-config
not being found because /usr/local/bin isn’t in the default path… but
apart from that, it worked.)On 19/01/2005, Will Childman, you wrote:
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Hi there.
1-
The problem in this case is:
As a user, you do not have write access to
/usr/local/lib. As you use --prefix=~/ (you home dir),
there is an option for libs also (wich I do not
remeber now). I will give a look as soon as I get home
and send it to you.
I never had used SDL this way (I use linux at home,
but as I have root access, I install the usual way).
Just a silly question… have you ever checked if
SDL is not already installed? In Linux, SDL is almost
default for every distro (linux distribution) I know,
even Slackware (wich I use at home).
2- try “make” (on the dir of the sample you want to
compile).
Best regards,
J Inacio Ferrarini
Salvador - Bahia - Brazil
J2EE / J2SE Programmer
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— Will Childman escreveu:> Hi ,
-
I’m trying to install SDL on my home directory
(since I don’t have write
permission on root in the school machine). I changed
"prefix" in Makefile to my
home directory, and “make” was run successfully. But
then I got this error in
"make install":
mkdir -p – . /usr/local/lib
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libSDLmain.a
/usr/local/lib/libSDLmain.a
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file
`/usr/local/lib/libSDLmain.a’:
Permission denied
How do I get around with this?
-
As you can tell, I’m very new to linux. How do I
compile the sample programs in
"test" subdirectory in SDL’s source pack?
Thanks!!
Will
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answer for the 1st question:
Try john the ripper, then you’ll have root permissions 
Just kidding Im sorry but Im very new too and so i dont know 
answer for the 2nd question:
change into the test directory:
cd test (if you are already in you SDL directory)
then type ./configure && make && make install
that takes a while
Hope I could help
with friendly greetings
Mike–
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Hi,
I changed “prefix” in Makefile to my
home directory, and “make” was run successfully.
Hm, how did you do this? There should be a “configure” file. Try
"./configure --help", then try “./configure --prefix=$HOME/SDL” or
wherever you want to install it (Sorry, I don’t have the source code at
hand, but that’s the usual way).
This should change your Makefiles etc., so that "make; make install"
should work ok.
Oh, when compiling things with your version of SDL, be sure to have
$HOME/SDL/bin (or whatever you picked) in your PATH variable (bash:
export PATH=$HOME/SDL/bin:$PATH , tcsh: setenv PATH $HOME/SDL/bin:$PATH
), otherwise the wrong sdl-config, if any, will be used.
And when running those, add $HOME/SDL/lib (or wherever the libraries
are) to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable as above, or else ld (the dynamic
linker) won’t find your freshly installed libraries.
Hope this helps (and is correct!),
Benjamin