[lustre-discuss] Trying to only build the lustreapi without sudo - make install error (Permission denied)

[Apostolis Stamatis]

Hello all,

I am trying to use the lustreapi in a project and I need to build it 
without sudo privileges in order to compile code that uses it. I don't 
need to build the whole client support, my end goal is only to compile 
code using lustreapi.h

What I am doing is:

```

sh autogen.sh

./configure --disable-server --disable-modules --disable-tests 
--prefix=/home/user/thirdparty/

make install

```

This fails with the error (output shortened to what I think is relevant)

```

make[3]: Entering directory '/home/user/lustre-release/libcfs/libcfs'
/bin/bash ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -Wall 
-Werror   -o libcfs.la  util/libcfs_la-string.lo 
util/libcfs_la-nidstrings.lo util/libcfs_la-param.lo 
util/libcfs_la-parser.lo util/libcfs_la-l_ioctl.lo  -lkeyutils
libtool: link: rm -fr  .libs/libcfs.a .libs/libcfs.la
rm: cannot remove '.libs/libcfs.a': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove '.libs/libcfs.la': Permission denied
libtool: link: ar cr .libs/libcfs.a util/.libs/libcfs_la-string.o 
util/.libs/libcfs_la-nidstrings.o util/.libs/libcfs_la-param.o 
util/.libs/libcfs_la-parser.o util/.libs/libcfs_la-l_ioctl.o
ar: could not create temporary file whilst writing archive: no more 
archived files

```

When running `sudo make install`, it works


So my questions are:

1) Is it possible to run make install without sudo for my use case

2) Is there a better way to only build the support for using lustreapi 
(assuming that what is required is only the library liblustreapi.a and 
the include headers)


Thanks in advance,

Apostolis