Hi all, "Notes on Building Software" in BLFS recommends, quite rightly, that readers should do as little as possible as 'root', and only use superuser privs for operations that require them (e.g. 'make install').
And, as this is *LFS I have chosen to ignore that advice up until now and keep all the pieces when it breaks :) I've been bitten by another bug/issue in the Python test suite that only affects the root user (this is in the httpservers tests, so is different from the original failure I saw back with Python-2.5, raised in comment 10 of #2200). If I run the tests as non-root they pass fine. So, my question is, should LFS and BLFS enforce, or at least more clearly encourage folks to build/install as non-root? In order to be able to support build automation, I'm considering using 'sudo' along with a dedicated build-user, who is configured in sudo to not require the root password. Do you think that this approach is suitable for LFS/BLFS? Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
