Re: pl2link not found when doing "sudo make install"

[Frederico Muñoz]

Hello,

On 8/24/05, David Ayers <address@hidden> wrote:
> Frederico Muñoz schrieb:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have this problem lingering for some time now and I can't detect
> > what causes it: whenever I do make install via sudo I get a "/bin/sh:
> > pl2link: command not found" error message. I have found some messages
> > with this problem in the archives but, alas, no answers.
> 
> This is a security feature of your sudo configuration...
(...)
> Look at:
> env |grep ^PATH
> vs.
> sudo env |grep ^PATH
> and watch the GNUstep paths disappear.
> 

Yes, thanks. I was aware of the fact that the problem derived from the
fact that the environment is reset by sudo, although I didn't make
mention of it in my mail. What I found odd was that some applications
(Gorm, fo example) work with "sudo make install".

> Personally my inclination would be that we should try to avoid to run
> any GNUstep tools during "make install" and have everything needed run
> during make.  But I'm not deep enough into -make to understand all the
> implications to know if that's practical or not.  For now I really
> switch to root (which sets up by environment by sourcing GNUstep.sh) and
> invoke "make install".
> 

Yes, I'm doing the same, but this problem appeared due to the need of
autobuilding Installer using a predifined set of methods that use make
&& sudo make install. I think that the pl2link invocation can indeed
by done in "make", since all I see it do is creating a .desktop file
in the application bundle. There is no need to be root for that.

I'll try to change application.make and other relevant files to see if
I can move pl2link somewhere else, since I think that "sudo make
install" should work out of the box.

Best Regards,

fsmunoz