[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] g.extension and GRASS 6.4.1

[Hamish]

Hamish:
> > finally we should consider what happens on Ubuntu and
> > possibly OSX where by default there is no root pw & sudo
> > is used;
William:
> I'm not sure what you mean.  I've never had any
> problems running sudo, either directly in the terminal or
> from a script.  It *always* asks for a password and you
> type in your login (admin) password, and it doesn't matter
> that root has a null password.  

I was talking about the -s flag which runs
  su -c "make ... install"

I don't remember if I notified the list or not, but I've now
added a -u flag to run
  sudo make ... install
instead, for those systems which need it.


so have you been running "sudo g.extension ..." ?


Hamish