On 2014-09-17 17:15, Ian Grant wrote:
When did you last audit these 66,000 lines of intermediate code, which
people are encouraged to run as root?
[...]
ian3@jaguar:~/build/guile-2.0.11$ wc -l Makefile lib/Makefile
libguile/Makefile configure
2373 Makefile
4052 lib/Makefile
3792 libguile/Makefile
55901 configure
66118 total
People are absolutely NOT encouraged to run ./configure and make as
root. In around 20 years of Guile development, I don't recall ever
doing or encouraging that.
Regards,
Neil
