Re: [bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue 1.24 bugs

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

David Morrison wrote:
> The uncompressing, configure and make were successful, but make check
> failed as shown below. I managed to work out that this was because there
> was a space in the folder name that the .lz file was in before I
> uncompressed it.

Thank you very much for reporting this. As you guessed, this is caused by 
unquoted file names. I have already fixed it. The fix will be included in 
the next version of ddrescue.


> install: /usr/local/bin/ddrescue: Permission denied
>
> I managed to overcome this by putting "sudo" before the "make install"
> command to allow it to overrride the permissions. Is this the right
> thing to do?

Yes. I don't know Mac OS X first-hand, but root privileges are usually 
required to write into /usr.


Best regards,
Antonio.