#17420: when building, check that user isn't root
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Reporter: jhpalmieri | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: minor | Milestone: sage-6.5
Component: build | Resolution:
Keywords: | Merged in:
Authors: Volker Braun | Reviewers:
Report Upstream: N/A | Work issues:
Branch: | Commit:
u/vbraun/when_building__check_that_user_isn_t_root|
a156a7850e90b34995794476a20e9741d7718519
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Changes (by {'newvalue': u'Volker Braun', 'oldvalue': ''}):
* status: new => needs_review
* author: => Volker Braun
Old description:
> A number of reported build errors on sage-devel seem to arise because
> people are building as root. We should check for this in the
> `./configure` script and print a clear message, rather than the current
> situation (letting the build continue for a while and then printing
> something a bit more cryptic).
New description:
A number of reported build errors on sage-devel seem to arise because
people are building as root. We should check for this in the `./configure`
script and print a clear message, rather than the current situation
(letting the build continue for a while and then printing something a bit
more cryptic).
Now fails early-on:
{{{
[root@dhcp-163-1-81-129 git]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
yes
checking for root user... yes
configure: error: You cannot build Sage as root, switch to a unpriviledged
user
}}}
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17420#comment:3>
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