RE: su to root failure in wineinstall

[Medland, Bill]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Enrico Horn [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:58 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: su to root failure in wineinstall
>
> Hi,
> On Saturday 20 April 2002 21:23, Thomas Hardman wrote:
> > Wine build complete.
> >
> > Performing 'make install' as root to install binaries,
>
> enter root password
> > Password:
> > /bin/bash: - : unrecognized option
> >
> > Either you entered an incorrect password or we failed to run
> > 'make install' correctly.
> > If you didn't enter an incorrect password then please report this
> > error to [e-mail].
> >
> > Installation failed, aborting.
> > earthops:/usr/src/wine-20020411$
>
> That is an error(typo?) in wineinstall
> Find this line in wineinstall:
> if ! su root -c"$sucommand"
>
> and put a space between -c and "$sucommand"
>
> That should do it.

And if that doesn't work then find the line where it adds ldconfig to
sucommand and explicitly specify /sbin/ldconfig (or wherever yours is)

Bill
> Enrico
> [e-mail]