[SDL] simple compile problem

Torsten Giebl wizard at syntheticsw.com
Fri Feb 22 16:27:14 PST 2008


Hello !


> Hi.. sorry for the simple question, but I need to compile SDL for another
>  program to work, and I seem to
>  be getting an error when running the ./configure && Make && make install
>
>  /bin/sh ./build-scripts/mkinstalldirs /usr/local/bin
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 755 sdl-config /usr/local/bin/sdl-config
>  install: /usr/local/bin/sdl-config: Permission denied
>  make: *** [install-bin] Error 71

To install SDL with make install in the end you need root rights.

So the commands should look like this :

./configure
make
su
make install


su asks you for the root password.


CU


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