Re: [Libjpeg-devel-6x] Readme build instructions are flawed

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Jonathan Wallace wrote:

> There is a glaring omission from it which anyone who uses *nix will notice right away.
> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
> 
> You can never install anything on the Mac without going through the 
> superuser.  I'm fairly certain it's the same way on all *nix 
> distribution.  How this hasn't been fixed yet is beyond me.

This is not true.  The person building the software could use an 
installation prefix where their user ID has write access.

I am glad that you were able to figure this out even though the 
documentation is lacking.

Bob
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