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[Andrea Azzarone <azzaronea@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is a fix on the way for this problem:
https://code.launchpad.net/~azzar1/unity/lp-1485668/+merge/268253

2015-09-11 12:41 GMT+02:00 Mohsen Ibrahim <mohsen47@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > When I run "make install" on the unity build, I get the following error:
>> >
>> > CMake Error at data/pam/cmake_install.cmake:44 (file): file cannot
>> > create directory: /pam.d. Maybe need
>> > administrative privileges. Call Stack (most recent call first):
>> > data/cmake_install.cmake:37 (include)
>> > cmake_install.cmake:356 (include)
>> >
>> >
>> > Makefile:66: recipe for target 'install' failed make: *** [install]
>> > Error 1
>> >
>> > Are there any known concerns for this? I can re-run it with "sudo make
>> > install", but unity completely crashes once
>> > I execute the "unity --replace &" command, and I can't login to my user
>> > again...
>>
>> The instructions on that page are slightly out of date: you need to add
>> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc to the cmake
>> command line in the remake-unity function.
>>
> I did not try this but the current user does not have privileges to write to
> /etc??? Only root has.
>
> I had the same issue and I resolved it manually by creating a directory
> called pam.d in the system's rrot directory and copying the file called
> unity inside data directory in unity source tree then I cahnged permissions
> on /pam.d and the file inside it so I become the owner of them after that I
> told the make script to ignore this directory by commenting the line
> data/CMakeLists.txt file.
> You may have other errors too, please post back if any errors occur.
>> - --
>> Stephen M. Webb <stephen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> https://launchpad.net/~bregma
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