Subject: Re: bug#53534: 28.0.91; on netbsd 'gmake install' outputs 'find: chown: No such file or directory'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:47:47 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Van Ly <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:26:36 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Users on NetBSD cannot invoke the 'chown' command?
> 
> Presumably it is not in the default PATH of non-root users;
> eg perhaps it is /sbin/chown.
> 
> On GNU/Linux, non-root users normally cannot chown things (to other
> users).

Isn't it customary to use sudo when installing stuff?

> I guess they are to deal with tar defaulting to --same-owner for root.

Most probably.

In any case, I don't see any serious problem in the reported behavior,
those are just warnings AFAIU.