Re: ~/.../emacs/lib-src/blessmail owned by root?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:47:17 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:16:37 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
> 
>     >> so blessmail is built as part of running the 'install' target, but the
>     >> lib-src Makefile only does that when itʼs needed, which is why it ends
>     >> up as owned by root.
>     >> 
>     >> Itʼs not installed, but the lib-src Makefile will tell you if it needs
>     >> to be run via the maybe-blessmail and need-blessmail targets.
> 
>     Eli> Thanks, so the solution seems to be to change the Makefile's so that
>     Eli> blessmail is produce at build time, not "make install" time.
> 
> This seems to DTRT, although I donʼt have any systems that require
> blessmail. I think this results in the 'need-blessmail' message being
> output at build time rather than install time, which could be seen as
> a problem.

Maybe we can move the messages as well.

Michael, does this change solve the problem with ownership?