Stéphane Peter

Typically, platform specific stuff is done within the embedded script you put in your archive. Makeself archives are only Bourne Shell scripts, so you can safely assume that it is...

Nothing is prohibited but really you can do anything you want within the archive itself - I would be reluctant to add Windows-specific options to Makeself itself unless really necessary...

Interesting points for an important use case. I think the more obvious fix would be to run su/sudo *within* the terminal, rather than running the terminal itself like this. This...

At the time this was written, this was more for the case where the actual root user was the logged in user on the X11 session; this is a much...

gzip is the more widely available command to uncompress the archive in this case. However we could add some code to find an alternative `pigz` if that is a functional...

Do you have more details on this? Where is this from? What command is the Makefile running?

True - somebody else contributed the man page and I haven't been updating it myself.

I think this has been suggested before but the main challenge would be where to store that pre-extract script. If it is not embedded in the archive, then it needs...

True, but I wouldn't advise doing something that requires root privileges from within an archive, like installing packages.

Have you tried a more recent version of Makeself? We're on 2.4.3 right now, and there were quite a few fixes since