On 2012/11/26 11:06, James Hartley wrote: > checking whether mkfifo rejects trailing slashes... yes > checking whether mknod can create fifo without root privileges... > configure: error: in `/usr/ports/pobj/coreutils-8.20/coreutils-8.20': > configure: error: you should not run configure as root (set > FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment to bypass this check) > See `config.log' for more details
> Is this intentional for the build to fail when building as root? Given the error message, I would say yes.