Re: [Boost-users] [Install] Am I doing something silly....?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Install] Am I doing something silly....?
From: Robert Jones (robertgbjones_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-26 07:58:34

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Olaf Peter <ope-devel_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> without reading your full log file, do you have write permissions on
> /usr/local (maybe /usr/local mounted ro)? I guess, you have sudo on
> Fedora, try on install time sudo ./bjam install  .....
>
> Regards,
> Olaf
>

Hi Olaf - thanks for replying. I do not have permission for /usr/local, but
why I should
need it is one of the things that puzzles me. Since I specified
~/thirdparty/... as the prefix
to bootstrap I figured I should be able to run this as me, not as root?

Cheers, Rob.