Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:23:03 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: unable to compile courier Message-ID: <20011105102303.B17306@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011105171559.0338db80@linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011105171559.0338db80@linux>; from kokwei@eXtropia.com on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:16:15PM +0800 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/