[Bdi4emc-help] BDI TESTING won't test

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 07:54, Chris Radek wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:50:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I maybe didn't do it right, but testing won't run, returning this
>> stanza on launching it, as root, built as gene after doing a chown
>> gene:gene to the whole tree as root before I did the make clean &&
>> make as gene: ...
>> One thing I didn't do was to nuke the config.status etc files and
>> rerun ./configure before doing the make, should I have?  Its late
>> or I'd test that yet tonight.
>
>Hi Gene,
>
>I'll answer this because it's a question specifically about EMC2.
>After doing a cvs update, you need to always do a full recompile.
>If you are building for run-in-place, this involves
>
>cd src
>./configure --enable-run-in-place
>make clean
>make
>sudo make setuid
>cd ..
>scripts/emc
>
>EMC2 has had all its security and permissions issues cleaned up and
>you should never run it as root.  You should also never run cvs as
>root.  Using root when it's not necessary just leads to other
>problems down the road - specifically, ending up with root-owned
>files strewn about.
Humm, I think I just did that. I reverted with a -A command, and then 
re-issured the up -rTESTING thing as root.  So I'll got change 
overships before I do anything else.
And I'll print this & take it out there since its nice today and I'm 
actually out there.

>If you continue to have problems building EMC2, please visit the
>#emc channel on freenode, or bring the topic to the emc-developers
>list on sourceforge.
>
>Regards,
>Chris
>
Thanks, Chris.

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