If sudo can stil write to /usr/local then you can do
make config PREFIX=/usr/local
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr/local
But it's unclear to me why a novice user needs to do a make
install -- if novice users should not be running sudo.
>>>>> "Koichi" == Koichi INOUE <inoue@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Koichi> Hi, I understood. In my opinion, for novice users who
Koichi> does not realize the place they are writing into,
Koichi> rootless will be useful feature to avoid the system
Koichi> messed up. But it may prevent them from using
Koichi> Emacspeak at all. How about documenting this case at
Koichi> the place the instruction for OS X resides?
Koichi>
Koichi> Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Koichi>
Koichi>>> As always, I'm mostly concerned about novices and not
>> power users. I know we have alternatives. :)
>>
>> Sent from a device
>>
>>
>>> On Sep 14, 2015, at 6:46 AM, Koichi INOUE
>>> <inoue@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Victor,
>>>
>>> I'm not on El Capitan yet, but I think it is not so big
>>> concern, because you may be allowed to write in
>>> /usr/local. /usr/bin/emacs bundled in Current OS X
>>> Yosemite is 22.1.1, so I always install newest Emacs with
>>> Homebrew into /usr/local.
>>>
>>> Best regards.
>>>
>>> Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi. The reason I wanted to write about this to the list
>>>> is because this security model changes access priveleges
>>>> to certain directories even if you are working with them
>>>> via sudo. For example, when performing a "sudo make
>>>> install" as the last step of Emacspeak installation, the
>>>> "make" will fail when trying to create an emacspeak
>>>> directory under /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. There is a
>>>> way to turn the feature off, as pointed out here,
>>>> http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/196224/unix-ln-s-command-not-permitted-in-osx-el-capitan-beta3,
>>>> but I don't think this will be possible in all user
>>>> contexts.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts? Best, Victor
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