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Re: install: invalid user ‘root’
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: install: invalid user ‘root’ |
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Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:56:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Dmitry Nikolaev <address@hidden> skribis:
> Hi. I'm trying to build Xawtv in GuixSD to use my webcamera during
> screencasts. I wrote package defintion for xawtv, it passes configuration
> and build phases, but fails on install phase with error:
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> /gnu/store/6908gy3pws0ccys49ni98idwnicchlr2-coreutils-8.26/bin/install:
> invalid user ‘root’
>
> What do I need to do to avoid this error?
Most likely the makefile does “install -o root …”, but there’s no “root”
user in the build environment.
To work around this, simply remove that “-o root” from the makefile,
along these lines:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/hurd.scm#n265
HTH,
Ludo’.