Closed vmcj closed 6 months ago
You can install in $HOME
fine, but there's no assumption that you can do so without root privileges, and I don't think that that should automatically be assumed. Also note that https://github.com/DOMjudge/domjudge/blob/main/Makefile#L157-L163 does warn you that you need to perform permission fixes if you install as non-root.
You can install in
$HOME
fine, but there's no assumption that you can do so without root privileges, and I don't think that that should automatically be assumed. Also note that https://github.com/DOMjudge/domjudge/blob/main/Makefile#L157-L163 does warn you that you need to perform permission fixes if you install as non-root.
I've tried running: ./configure --with-baseurl=localhost --prefix=$HOME; make judgehost; make install-judgehost
and this only shows the error after commenting: https://github.com/DOMjudge/domjudge/blob/main/judge/Makefile#L36-L40. I suspect the value configure picks: * systemd unit files..: /lib/systemd/system
is not wanted here, it's based on the output of pkg-config
which makes that we fail in the install step before where the check you reference is used..
Description of the enhancement request
Currently we advice in the manual the prefix of $HOME, given that we have 4 main targets for configure:
The goal you want to achieve
Currently we have multiple failure stories in slack where people copied the manual and ended up in a system which we don't properly test and therefor their first experience with installing becomes a failure. We should make sure that following the manual does end up in a working system right before actually running stuff.