Oliver Boermans wrote:

> 2009/8/4 Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org>:
>> This line suggests `make` was run with sudo or as a different user at
>> some point. Blowing away the source tree and starting from a fresh
>> download ought to have fixed this.
> 
> The words “source tree” suggests the svn source code. Should I be
> getting the tagged 0.9.1 from there rather than downloading the
> release from <http://couchdb.apache.org/downloads.html>?

The tarball release also expands to a source tree. There are no binary 
downloads on the CouchDB website.

Nils.