[mythtv-users] Help compiling lame...

[Maarten]

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 02:15, John Pummill wrote:
> Hi all,

> I can compile as root but not my myth user -> mythtv

This is weird.  That should not ever happen.

> Here are the steps I have taken from the how-to:
>
> 1)  Create user mythtv ( home directory is:
> /home/mythtv)

<snip>
All the QTDIR stuff will be needed for building MythTV. However, compiling 
lame will work out of the box without any of the actions you performed...

> 5)  (5.2) Building Lame.
>           as user mythtv
>           cd /home/mythtv/src/lame-3.95.1
>           ./configure

Compiling as root is discouraged since it may present a security problem. 
However, apart from that there is no reason whatsoever to not compile 
something as root, or as any other user for that matter.

> This is where I run into trouble.  I get the following
> error:

> checking for C compiler default output... configure:
> error: C compiler cannot create executables

It sound like something essential is missing from your compiler. Can you 
compile anything else ? The kernel, or something like that ?

Google suggests that you may not have write permissions in the current dir.
So, maybe you untarred lame as root and then changed to user myth; in that 
case user myth cannot write there. Easily verified by ls -la. If so, you need 
to run 'chown -R myth. /home/mythtv/src/lame-3.95.1'
Or better, start over and untar as user myth next time! 

> See `config.log' for more details.

Did you heed that advice ? My guess is, No.

> Again, as root I have no problem but as user mythtv,
> this does not compile.

If the above didn't work, if you can compile as root, I'd say go for it.  But 
it DOES suggest something is wrong with your system.  Make install may 
require root, but plain 'make' or  './configure' will not; they should always 
work.  Which linux distribution is that ?

Maarten

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