Re: error when installing make

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Joe Justin" <address@hidden> writes:

  jj> I'm trying to install make on a Sun 5.6 and receive an error:
  jj> cannot create /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/#inst.28356#:
  jj> Permission denied.

This means you don't have write permissions to that directory
(/usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES).  You need to log in as a user
who has the correct permissions.

There is nothing make, configure, etc. can do about having the right
permissions on your system.

  jj> is there something i need to configure to successfuly do this?

If you don't have permissions to write to that directory, you can use
the --prefix option to configure to tell it to install into a different
directory, where you do have write permissions.

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