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From: haynes@felix.ucsc.edu (99700000)
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Subject: Problems with installation scripts
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Date: 15 Mar 91 20:29:41 GMT
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One would like to be able to compile X11 on a server, then export the
build tree read-only and allow other machines to NFS mount it and
cd to the root of the build tree and 'make install'

One reason this fails is a crock in most vendors' versions of ranlib,
which try to write in the current directory rather than in the directory
where the library being ran-ed lives.  gnu ranlib doesn't have this
problem, and I've been promised that 4.4 BSD won't have it either.

Another problem is that the mergelib script in X11 tries to create a
temporary directory in the build tree.

There may be others; at this point I gave up and mounted the build
tree read-write, root access for the duration of the install.