I primarily wrote this for one person. Dave and you and whomever wants to be 
involved may certainly edit it as they wish. Your point is understood.

-- 
Cheryl

May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)




On Sep 4, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sun, 3 Sep 2017, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Actually this is not true in the Mac unless you do everything in your 
> home directory. This is if you are compiling. But probably the sudo 
> was not needed in the ls command.

It is highly recommended that you compile things in a subdirectory of 
your home directory. The point is to do as much as possible without root 
privileges. Any issues, e.g. bugs with the Makefile than ends up 
deleting files from / would have less of an impact on your system that 
way.

Of course on your own system you may do as you wish. But in a guideline 
document that inexperienced people will rely upon I think it is 
important to stick to best practices.


Nicolas

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