[lttng-dev] lttng-ust installs stuff in /tmp

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Sébastien Barthélémy (barthelemy at crans.org) wrote:
> Hello Alexandre,
> 
> 2012/1/6 Alexandre Montplaisir <alexandre.montplaisir at polymtl.ca>:
> > [...]
> > Another solution would have been to "install" those .so's in the source
> > directory itself. But then when running "sudo make install", that would
> > create extra files in the source directory owned by root. So in the end
> > those were diverted to /tmp, waiting to be cleaned up next reboot.
> 
> thank you for the explanation.
> 
> Alas, this workaround has an annoying side effect here: installing the package
> (tar xpf) changes the permissions of /tmp, which has a lot of annoying side
> effects;).
> 
> > If anyone knows a better solution please let us know ;)
> 
> ... sorry

Until we find a better solution, we might want to document that the
installed content under /tmp should be discarded manually ? Other ideas ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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EfficiOS Inc.
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