'sudo make install' doesn't work

[davidsarah]

erpo41 wrote on volunteergrid2-l:

Hi all,

Since my node seems stable, I'm beginning to upload my backups into the grid. Since tahoe is running on a dedicated server in its own user account, I need to make the tahoe executable available to my personal user account on that server. (Previously I had been running tahoe out of /home/volunteergrid2/allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1/bin.)

When I tried to install tahoe, I got the following error messages:

  eric@io:/home/volunteergrid2/allmydata-tahoe-1.9.1$ sudo make install
  python ./setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed
  running update_version
  no version-control data found, leaving _version.py alone
  running install
  error: You must specify --record or --root when building system packages
  make: *** [install] Error 1

This is why I hate building/installing from source on Linux. What do --record and --root do? Does "building system packages" refer to building the executable or a deb/rpm package? Do I actually have to go back and rebuild the tahoe executable with those options? If so, where do I insert those options in the "python setup.py build" command line recommended by quickstart.rst for building the executable? What do those options do and what should I set them to on my system?

The 'install' Makefile target should not be using --single-version-externally-managed.

As a workaround, use 'sudo python ./setup.py install'.