[PATCH wayland-web] building: Recommend disabling setuid for non-root installs

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:54:17 +0000
"Bryce W. Harrington" <b.harrington at samsung.com> wrote:

> The build directions guide the user to build and install Wayland in a
> user directory without using superuser privs.  However, the weston build
> process includes a `chown root` on weston-launcher done by default,
> which results in a failed build when running make install as
> non-superuser, unless we pass --enable-setuid-install=no to disable the
> feature.
> 
> (Probably would be better to fix weston so make install works as
> non-root, but for now just document the workaround...)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <b.harrington at samsung.com>
> ---
>  building.html |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/building.html b/building.html
> index b7a1158..a47744e 100644
> --- a/building.html
> +++ b/building.html
> @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ gio-2.0.</p>
>  
>  <pre>    $ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston
>      $ cd weston
> -    $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$WLD
> +    $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$WLD --enable-setuid-install=no
>      $ make
>      $ make install
>  </pre>

I believe setuid weston-launch is mandatory for all backends
that use evdev, that is at least drm and fbdev. Otherwise they
cannot open input devices on normal system setups.

Maybe prefer 'sudo make install' then?


Thanks,
pq