[Coco] ack!

[Tormod Volden]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Can we get rid of the root user requirement?  I wear out the chown -R
> command switching the trees user:group around all the time so I can work on
> it as me.

I am pretty sure there never was a root user requirement. It is only
needed if you install something to a system folder like
/usr/local/bin. But if you by mistake ran something as root (or using
sudo) file ownership might have been messed up so that you can't fix
it as a normal user.

This reminds me though, that I updated the build instructions in the
wiki http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/nitros9/index.php?title=Building_NitrOS9_in_Windows_using_Cygwin
some time ago and the previous instructions put the sources in
/usr/src, which is just weird, and requires root permissions to some
degree.

BTW, I can understand it is not so easy to find that wiki page or the
wiki at all, the sourceforge project offers two wikis now, not to
mention the way Sourceforge moves repositories around. It would make
sense to shut down or rename the old repo so that people don't use it
by accident.

>
> There are also some remaining ifp1's giving lwasm a tummy ache, but I
> haven't located them yet.

lwasm warns about it ignoring ifp1 and you can just ignore that warning.


To the nitros-9 developers:
Why is the apparently troublesome NITROS9DIR variable at all required
for building stuff /inside/ this directory tree? The stuff inside
should probably just use relative paths. AFAICS a such variable only
makes sense for an out-of-tree build of third-party modules.

Regards,
Tormod