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[svn] Mention that make install requires root.
authorhniksic <devnull@localhost>
Mon, 2 May 2005 12:34:03 +0000 (05:34 -0700)
committerhniksic <devnull@localhost>
Mon, 2 May 2005 12:34:03 +0000 (05:34 -0700)
ChangeLog
INSTALL

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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2005-05-02  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@xemacs.org>
+
+       * INSTALL: Document environment variables affecting configure,
+       especially $CC.
+
+       * INSTALL: Mention that make install requires root.
+
 2005-04-29  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@xemacs.org>
 
        * configure.in: Don't set ipv6 to yes only because struct
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -95,8 +95,10 @@ basic functionality works.
 3) Installation
 
 Use `make install' to install GNU Wget to directories specified to
-configure.  The standard prefix is "/usr/local/", which can be changed
-using the `--prefix' configure option.
+configure.  To install it in a system directory (which is the
+default), you will need to be root.  The standard prefix is
+"/usr/local/", which can be changed using the `--prefix' configure
+option.
 
 The installation process will copy the wget binary to $PREFIX/bin,
 install the wget.info* info pages to $PREFIX/info, the generated