Re: [PATCH] Fix "make install" in certain fakeroot environments

[David Ward <david dot ward at ll dot mit dot edu>]

On 1/26/19 10:25 PM, David Ward wrote:
> Do not abort "make install" if the stapusr group cannot be found or
> created, or it cannot be set as the owner of installed executables,
> even when the effective user ID is 0.
>
> These operations may not be possible in some fakeroot environments
> that are used to build distribution binary packages. (I discovered
> this issue on Arch Linux using "makechrootpkg".) The package build
> files often specify these operations directly: see systemtap.spec.
>
> Otherwise, use fewer commands to achieve the same result as before.

I believe this can be disregarded. It seems I was missing some 
information specific to Arch Linux, and I don't think this patch is 
otherwise necessary.