Re: unable to compile courier

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:16:15PM +0800, Kok Wei, Koh wrote:
> I installed the latest version of cygwin on my windows 2000 machine tried 
> to install the courier mail server. I untarred the source distribution and 
> got /src/courier-0.35.1.20011104
> I then tried to run ./configure but at a certain point of configuration, it 
> returned me the following message:
> configure: warning: === Do not compile Courier as root. Compile
> configure: warning: === Courier as a non-root user then su to
> configure: warning: === root before running make install. You must now
> configure: warning: === remove this entire directory and then extract the
> configure: warning: === source code from the tarball as a non-root user
> configure: warning: === and rerun the configure script. If you have read
> configure: warning: === the INSTALL file you should have known this. So
> configure: warning: === you better read INSTALL again
> configure: error: aborted.
> 
> I tried logging out of windows, and login as a normal user I created named 
> "install" who's assigned in the group "users". I ran ./configure again and 
> it gave me the same error message. Anybody knows why a user is always 
> treated as root? Any help greatly appreciated.

No.  You'll have to inspect the configure script of that package to
know what's going on.

Corinna

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