[Techtalk] Problems Compiling Scribus

[Beth Johnson]

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 12:53, Dave North wrote:
> > here's the output at the end:
> >
> > ln: creating hard link `libabout.so.0" to `libabout.so.0.0.0': Operation
> > not permitted
> 
> That's kind of an odd thing to see, but on the other hand is fairly common
> during "make install" and usually means you don't have permissions to
> carry out the operation, so the compiler exits.
> 	Try doing the same thing as root and see what happens.

I did!  That's what has me scratching my head.  The whole scribus
directory is owned by my regular user account so you'd think I'd be able
to make a link, and it was just the "make", not "make install".  Perhaps
I should try to chown to root and then run the make as root?

thanks,
Beth
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