This is about the 66,00 lines of code that are in the confige script and are not routinely audited and are typically run as root.
In http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2014-09/msg00098.html Neil Jerram proclaims: > 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. ian3@jaguar:~/build/guile-2.0.11$ ls -ld /usr/local drwxr-xr-x 19 ian ian 4096 2014-08-11 23:39 /usr/local What is the default setting of --prefix? It doesn't matter that ./configure is not run as root, that script writes the makefiles that are run as root to install the package. This is GNU policy, but that doesn't in itself mean it isn't as really, really stupid thing to do. Ian
