Re: [Libphidget-devel] Teaser ;)

[Vadim T. <vt...@fr...>]

According to Jack Strohm:

> you said you had to be root to run make rpm, why is that.  Is it making
> and installing an RPM?

Making, but not installing.

Take a look at the bottom of the toplevel Makefile.am - there are things
that *absolutely* must be done in order for RPM to work, and they include
modifying the content of /usr/src/redhat - can't be done without being root.

I figured that it's not really necessary to make the make make ;) the RPM
and install it too - it's rather a distribution thing. You don't want to
install the RPM as a part of a debugging process - it includes complete
recompilation everytime and is quite slow. 'make install' will suffice, but
RPM package is a neat thing when it comes to making the user happy ;)

--vt