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[Philipp Moeller <>]

"Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory)" 
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writes:

> Le samedi 09 juin 2012 16:35:18 Philipp Moeller a écrit :
>> Sweety Pie 
>> <>
>>  writes:
>> > Please note that CMake GUI should be Run as Administrator for Win7
>> 
>> No, it shouldn't. This is only the case when file permissions or
>> installation folders have been chosen poorly.
>> 
>> Running build systems as root is dangerous.
>
> I think the tutorial should be more precise about that. In my opinion, if 
> the 
> user account is not an "administrator account", the tutorial should tell 
> that 
> the CGAL binary directory must be in the user directory.

Isn't that a too strict restriction? Build as user and install as root
should work well, too.

We could also try to implement a check for the validity of the selected
install directories at configuration time and issue a hint that the
install target requires elevated privileges. Although, I see no way to
get permissions of a directory from within CMake. We can always do funny
things, e.g. trying to copy a file and check for the outcome, but I'm
afraid that will lead to strange/scary results with UAC enabled.