From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 08:25:37 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: * INSTALL: Add advice how to invoke 'make install'.  (Bug#74400)
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* INSTALL: Add advice how to invoke 'make install'.  (Bug#74400)

(cherry picked from commit 505c1123e18a8a710fc60e05a4c870497bf580f4)
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 8182ac3f519..14dea1d4a46 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -667,6 +667,12 @@ for its Lisp files by giving values for 'make' variables as part of
 the command.  See the section below called 'MAKE VARIABLES' for more
 information on this.
 
+If the directories where 'make install' installs files are not writable
+by your user, you might prefer invoking 'make && sudo make install'
+instead.  This first invokes 'make' to make sure all the required files
+are rebuilt with your user's permissions and ownership, and then
+installs them using the permissions of root.
+
 7) Check the file 'dir' in your site's info directory (usually
 /usr/local/share/info) to make sure that it has a menu entry for the
 Emacs info files.