[sword-devel] Operation not permitted error while installing on Mac OS X

Maxwell Murunga maxmmur at gmail.com
Sat Feb 1 15:22:57 MST 2020


Thank you very much, Troy and Greg.

Blessings,
~~Maxwell

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:04 PM Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 12:52 PM Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Maxwell,
>>
>> Have a look in the folder: sword/bindings/objc/ and see the README
>>
>
> If you're not looking for ObjC, you could also use the homebrew project to
> install libsword. That will install it to the root of your homebrew folder
> instead of the global /usr/ install directories.
>
> --Greg
>
>> I realize you might not care about Objective C, but there is an XCode
>> project in there which will bulid a universal libsword which you can likely
>> use for whatever your needs.  It might be easier than trying to get the
>> autotools or cmake system working on MacOS.
>>
>> Regarding the error you show below, it looks like you are doing
>> everything correctly, MacOS just isn't happy letting you install to
>> /usr/lib/ even though you have used 'sudo'.  I don't pretend to know how
>> permissions work on MacOS, but I also would have though sudo should have
>> given you permission to install where ever you wanted.
>>
>> Please let us know if you are still stuck and maybe more specifically
>> what you hope to do with a built libsword and we might have more
>> suggestions.
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Troy
>>
>>
>> On 1/9/20 4:50 PM, Maxwell Murunga wrote:
>>
>> Hi, after successfully compiling SWORD, I got a problem while trying to
>> install SWORD:
>> Steps to reproduce:
>>
>> sudo make install && sudo make install_config
>>
>> Password:
>> What happened:
>>
>> Making install in lib
>>
>>  .././install-sh -c -d '/usr/lib'
>>
>>  /bin/sh ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   libsword.la
>> '/usr/lib'
>>
>> libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libsword-1.8.1.dylib
>> /usr/lib/libsword-1.8.1.dylib
>>
>> install: /usr/lib/libsword-1.8.1.dylib: Operation not permitted
>>
>> make[2]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 71
>>
>> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
>>
>> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>>
>>
>> Environment
>>
>>    - macOS Mojave 10.14.6.
>>    -
>>
>> Thanks for helping out, God bless!!
>>
>>
>> ~~Maxwell
>>
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