Re: [help-gnuastro] Output file requires root

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Hi Francesco,

Thank you very much for the great reports,

On 10/22/2016 10:47 PM, Francesco Montanari wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying out some programs (mainly astcosmiccal and asttable)
> and they look very nice, thanks!
>
> When installing the programs in a local folder everything works fine.
> However, when installing in a system folder (./configure && make && make
> check && make install):
>
> $ astcosmiccal -z 1
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file
> /usr/bin/.libs/9000-lt-astcosmiccal: Permission denied
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> This would require to run gnuastro with root privileges. Is this
> expected and is there a way to avoid it? Just out of curiosity, what is
> the purpose of this .libs/ folder?

This is certainly not expected. I have opened the following support 
tracker issue on Savannah, lets continue the discussion there:

https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?109171

> A couple of possible minor issues:
> - section 9.1.3 (Invoking CosmicCalculator) of the book, it looks like
> in the examples there should be no equal sign after short options, e.g.
>   $ astcosmiccal --onlyvolume -z 0.8

Thank you very much for reporting this, bug #49419 (link below) was 
opened for it and it has been corrected:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?49419

> - in gnuastro-0.2 the man page of asttable seems to be missing

Thanks also for reporting this bug, bug #49418 was opened for it and it 
has been fixed:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?49418

Cheers,
Mohammad