cannot create regular file '/lib/systemd/system/xdm.service': Permission denied

dclarke at blastwave.org dclarke at blastwave.org
Thu Oct 15 20:54:29 PDT 2015



> On October 14, 2015 at 6:49 PM Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:50:23AM -0400, dclarke at blastwave.org wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Everything was going smoothly in my build process until, for some
> > reason, an attempt was made to reach into the OS area and touch
> > things
> > under /lib.  Well that should be a no no as I am not building as the
> > root user and I want everything safely in /opt/xorg. 
> > 
> > So I probably missed a step somewhere ? 
> 
> ./configure --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/path/to/wherever ...


Thank you Peter, again. 

I will go back and read
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Building_the_X_Window_System/ and see if I can
figure out where this "configure" step should be inserted. 

Dennis


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