When compiling from source as a normal user (say joe), the "make install" step (that is typically invoked by "root"), creates a new file named install_manifest.txt owned by root in the source directory, which is typically owned by joe. This is not good, and in some situations (NFS mounted home directory with root-squashing) would cause an error during the "make install". Perhaps this is not a kig issue only.
Are you sure it is installed into source directory, not in the build directory?
This is the exact sequence of commands (as user "paolini") [omitting the stdout/stderr of "cmake", "make", "make install": $ git clone git@git.kde.org:kig $ cd kig $ cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull -DPLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR:PATH=/usr/lib/qt5/plugins $ make $ su Password: *** # make install # exit $ ls -l | grep root -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18579 14 feb 23.51 install_manifest.txt Perhaps there is something wrong in the cmake options that I use...
Well, you are not using a separate build directory. If you are not allowed to create root files in /home, use a /tmp directory as the build directory. cd /home/user git clone kig mkdir /tmp/kig-build cd /tmp/kig-build cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr /home/user/kig make sudo make install cd /home/user rm -rf /tmp/kig-build I doubt cmake can be changed to create the "install_manifest.txt" during the building, instead of during the installation, but you could report this issue to cmake developers via https://cmake.org/Bug
(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #3) > Well, you are not using a separate build directory. If you are not allowed > to create root files in /home, use a /tmp directory as the build directory. Thank you. I am still not used to the concept of a "build" directory. I think the "old style" sequence ./configure make make install separated build stage (all user-owned files) from eht "install stage" (everything new is owned by root). One question: even if I have permissions to create root-owned files in my home, still it seems to me that mixing user-owned with root-owned files in the same place (be it /tmp/ or the user /home/user) is not wise. But I guess this is a cmake issue. Another approach would be that the install_manifest.txt be created with "user" as the owner... > cd /home/user > git clone kig > mkdir /tmp/kig-build > cd /tmp/kig-build > cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr /home/user/kig > make > sudo make install > cd /home/user > rm -rf /tmp/kig-build I tried to report this issue to the cmake developers. Bug reporting moved to: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues > I doubt cmake can be changed to create the "install_manifest.txt" during the > building, instead of during the installation, but you could report this > issue to cmake developers via https://cmake.org/Bug