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revno: 4115
committer: Alexander Eulitz <alexander.eulitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
timestamp: Wed 2014-07-23 17:13:15 +0200
message:
  Added hint about make errors during compilation
  when user does not posses root priviledges.
  
  As well for yade as for yade-doc compilation.
  
  Signed-off-by: Alexander Eulitz <alexander.eulitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
modified:
  doc/sphinx/installation.rst


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=== modified file 'doc/sphinx/installation.rst'
--- doc/sphinx/installation.rst	2014-07-23 12:23:17 +0000
+++ doc/sphinx/installation.rst	2014-07-23 15:13:15 +0000
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
 	myYade/       		## base directory
 		trunk/		## folder for sourcecode in which you use github
 		build/		## folder in which sources will be compiled; build-directory; use cmake here
-		install/	## installfolder
+		install/	## install folder
 
 Then inside this build-directory you should start cmake to configure the compilation process::
 
@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@
 	make install
 
 The "install" command will in fact also recompile if source files have been modified. 
-Hence there is no absolute need to type the two commands separately.
+Hence there is no absolute need to type the two commands separately. You may receive make errors if you don't have root privileges.
+These errors are not critical but without root privileges yade won't be linked in /usr/local/bin/.
 
 After compilation finished successfully
 the new built can be started by navigating to /path/to/installfolder/bin and calling yade via (based on version yade-2014-02-20.git-a7048f4)::
@@ -249,7 +250,7 @@
 
 For building the documentation you should at first execute the command "make install"
 and then "make doc" to build it. The generated files will be stored in your current
-build directory/doc/sphinx/_build.
+build directory/doc/sphinx/_build. Once again root privileges are necessary for linking. Link will be created in /usr/local/share/doc/.
 
 "make manpage" command generates and moves manpages in a standard place.
 "make check" command executes standard test to check the functionality of compiled program.