From da93dc1c98b69e4ced01c8005eda25c0238364ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Grothoff Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 18:11:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] -document SUDO build implications --- README | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 7c66b6510..7a3d4cf35 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -100,17 +100,21 @@ certain binaries that require additional priviledges will not be installed properly (and autonomous NAT traversal, WLAN, DNS/GNS and the VPN will then not work). -Note that additional, per-user configuration files -(~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf) need to be created by each user (for example, -by running gnunet-setup). Note that gnunet-setup is a separate -download and requires recent versions of GTK+ and Glade; you can also -edit the configuration file by hand, but this is not recommended. For -more general information about the GNU build process read the INSTALL -file. - -If you are compiling the code from subversion, you have to run -". bootstrap" before ./configure. If you receive an error during the -running of ". bootstrap" that looks like "macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not +If you run 'configure' and 'make install' as root or use the SUDO +option, GNUnet's build system will install "libnss_gns*" libraries to +"/lib/" regardless (!) of the $GNUNET_PREFIX you might have specified, +as those libraries must be in "/lib/". If you are packaging GNUnet +for binary distribution, this may cause your packaging script to miss +those plugins, so you might need to do some additional manual work to +include those libraries in your binary package(s). Similarly, if you +want to use the GNUnet naming system and did NOT run GNUnet's 'make +install' process with SUDO rights, the libraries will be installed to +"$GNUNET_PREFIX/lib" and you will have to move them to "/lib/" +manually. + +Finally, if you are compiling the code from subversion, you have to +run ". bootstrap" before ./configure. If you receive an error during +the running of ". bootstrap" that looks like "macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library", you may need to run aclocal by hand with the -I option, pointing to your aclocal m4 macros, i.e. @@ -120,6 +124,14 @@ $ aclocal -I /usr/local/share/aclocal Configuration ============= +Note that additional, per-user configuration files +(~/.gnunet/gnunet.conf) need to be created by each user (for example, +by running gnunet-setup). Note that gnunet-setup is a separate +download and requires recent versions of GTK+ and Glade; you can also +edit the configuration file by hand, but this is not recommended. For +more general information about the GNU build process read the INSTALL +file. + GNUnet uses two types of configuration files, one that specifies the system-wide defaults (typically located in $GNUNET_PREFIX/share/gnunet/config.d/) and a second one that overrides -- 2.25.1