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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | bug#53534: 28.0.91; on netbsd 'gmake install' outputs 'find: chown: No such file or directory' |
Date: | Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:26:36 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Users on NetBSD cannot invoke the 'chown' command? Presumably it is not in the default PATH of non-root users; eg perhaps it is /sbin/chown. On GNU/Linux, non-root users normally cannot chown things (to other users). It's not obvious to me that these venerable chowns in the Makefile are useful. Apart from them being no-ops for non-root installs (apart from possible group changes), LOGNAME (which is the first choice for setting $installuser) has different values in `su` and `su -`. So the ownership of the emacs installation will vary according to how su was invoked. I guess they are to deal with tar defaulting to --same-owner for root.
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