[Help-stow] Stow conflict help

[Dominic Steinitz]

Hi,

I am getting the following warnings / errors. It seems to suggest I need a user 
called stow and then giving this user ownership of e.g. 
/usr/local/bin/freetype-config. I couldn't find any mention of having to create 
a user called stow in the docs or when I searched the Internet. Any help would 
be much appreciated.

Thanks, Dominic.

> bash-3.2$ stow --version
> stow (GNU Stow) version 2.2.0
> bash-3.2$ perl -v
> 
> This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 4 (v5.12.4) built for 
> darwin-thread-multi-2level
> (with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
> 
> Copyright 1987-2010, Larry Wall
> 
> Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
> GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
> 
> Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
> this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to the
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> 
> bash-3.2$ uname -a
> Darwin Dominics-MacBook-Pro.local 12.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat 
> Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
> bash-3.2$ stow -vvv freetype-2.4.8
> stow dir is /usr/local/stow
> stow dir path relative to target /usr/local is stow
> cwd now /usr/local
> cwd restored to /usr/local/stow
> cwd now /usr/local
> Planning stow of package freetype-2.4.8...
> Stowing contents of stow/freetype-2.4.8 (cwd=/usr/local)
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/bin
> Stowing contents of stow/freetype-2.4.8/bin (cwd=/usr/local)
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/bin/freetype-config
> CONFLICT when stowing freetype-2.4.8: existing target is not owned by stow: 
> bin/freetype-config
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/include
> Stowing contents of stow/freetype-2.4.8/include (cwd=/usr/local)
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/include/freetype2
> CONFLICT when stowing freetype-2.4.8: existing target is not owned by stow: 
> include/freetype2
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/include/ft2build.h
> CONFLICT when stowing freetype-2.4.8: existing target is not owned by stow: 
> include/ft2build.h
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib
> Stowing contents of stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib (cwd=/usr/local)
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
> CONFLICT when stowing freetype-2.4.8: existing target is not owned by stow: 
> lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib/libfreetype.a
> CONFLICT when stowing freetype-2.4.8: existing target is not owned by stow: 
> lib/libfreetype.a
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib/libfreetype.dylib
> CONFLICT when stowing freetype-2.4.8: existing target is not owned by stow: 
> lib/libfreetype.dylib
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib/libfreetype.la
> LINK: lib/libfreetype.la => ../stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib/libfreetype.la
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib/pkgconfig
> Stowing contents of stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib/pkgconfig (cwd=/usr/local)
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc
> CONFLICT when stowing freetype-2.4.8: existing target is not owned by stow: 
> lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/share
> Stowing contents of stow/freetype-2.4.8/share (cwd=/usr/local)
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/share/aclocal
> Stowing contents of stow/freetype-2.4.8/share/aclocal (cwd=/usr/local)
> Stowing stow/freetype-2.4.8/share/aclocal/freetype2.m4
> CONFLICT when stowing freetype-2.4.8: existing target is not owned by stow: 
> share/aclocal/freetype2.m4
> Planning stow of package freetype-2.4.8... done
> cwd restored to /usr/local/stow
> WARNING! stowing freetype-2.4.8 would cause conflicts:
>   * existing target is not owned by stow: bin/freetype-config
>   * existing target is not owned by stow: include/freetype2
>   * existing target is not owned by stow: include/ft2build.h
>   * existing target is not owned by stow: lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
>   * existing target is not owned by stow: lib/libfreetype.a
>   * existing target is not owned by stow: lib/libfreetype.dylib
>   * existing target is not owned by stow: lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc
>   * existing target is not owned by stow: share/aclocal/freetype2.m4
> All operations aborted.