[Libreoffice] Build problem on windows 7

Martin Gallwey martin at gallwey.com
Tue Oct 26 11:35:11 PDT 2010


> Sorry, nope. For me that has always worked fine, Cygwin has never mistaken me to be superuser if I use my normally powered Windows account.
>
> What does your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files look like?

My entry in /etc/passwd is:

Martin:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513:U-ATOMISER\Martin,S-1-5-21-1229272821-343818398-682003330-1004:/home/Martin:/bin/bash

and /etc/group looks like this:

root:S-1-5-32-544:0:
SYSTEM:S-1-5-18:18:
None:S-1-5-21-1229272821-343818398-682003330-513:513:
Administrators:S-1-5-32-544:544:
Guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
Users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
HelpServicesGroup:S-1-5-21-1229272821-343818398-682003330-1001:1001:


>
>> Where would be an appropriate place to check the uid and fail with a
>> useful hint?
>
> I think the "inner" configure.in (clone/bootstrap/configure.in) would be the best place. Or even build.pl (clone/bootstrap/solenv/bin/build.pl).

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