This would presumably be because the permissions on the configuration file and the eventual binary location are more restrictive, since they potentially affect everyone who uses the program, but a local build directory only affects the user doing the compiling.
On May 16, 2014 10:07:42 AM CDT, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > Could someone give me a short course on why it is one executes these > steps: > > ./configure as root > make as a user > make install as root > > ???? > > I'm confused... > > Howard -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
