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

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:54:29PM -0400, dclarke at blastwave.org wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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. 

in this case, during xdm's configure process :)

look at the top of config.log for the current configure line, then re-use
that with the above flag added, run make and everything should be at least
hunky, maybe even dory.

Cheers,
   Peter