su to root failure in wineinstall

Medland, Bill Bill.Medland at accpac.com
Mon Apr 22 09:13:35 CDT 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Enrico Horn [mailto:farmboy1 at subdimension.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:58 AM
> To: wine-devel at winehq.com
> Subject: Re: su to root failure in wineinstall
> 
> 
> Hi,
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 21:23, Thomas Hardman wrote:
> > Wine build complete.
> >
> > Performing 'make install' as root to install binaries, 
> enter root password
> > Password:
> > /bin/bash: - : unrecognized option
> >
> > Either you entered an incorrect password or we failed to run
> > 'make install' correctly.
> > If you didn't enter an incorrect password then please report this
> > error to wine-devel at winehq.com.
> >
> > Installation failed, aborting.
> > earthops:/usr/src/wine-20020411$
> 
> That is an error(typo?) in wineinstall
> Find this line in wineinstall:
> if ! su root -c"$sucommand"
> 
> and put a space between -c and "$sucommand"
> 
> That should do it.

And if that doesn't work then find the line where it adds ldconfig to
sucommand and explicitly specify /sbin/ldconfig (or wherever yours is)

Bill
> 
> Enrico
> farmboy1 at subdimension.com
> 



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