[bt-devel] Sword CVS hanging

[Daniel Glassey]

btw you shouldn't have to run make as root - it's only make install that you need root priviledges -  if 
you install files to system directories.

Regards,
Daniel

On 27 Aug 2002 at 21:56, Fred Saalbach sent forth the message:

> This has happened to me several times, I think it was a problem on my
> end (probaly permissions).  I always solve it by trashing my copy of
> sword and checking out a fresh copy using command line CVS.
> 
> I suspect it has somthing to do with not being to do make as a regular
> user.  If you do make as root, the permissions on all generated files
> will be root only.  Then cvs as a regular user will probably hang if it
> bumps into a file it can not replace.
> Fred Saalbach