Really? I'll have to give it another try as non-root. The first time I tried, things blew up left and right. Any progress I made was done as root.
On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 01:22:22 -0500, you wrote: >2016-10-07 23:28 GMT-05:00 tth <[email protected]>: >> On 10/08/2016 02:21 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> >>> 1. Never a good idea to build things as a non-privileged (not root) >>> user. su to root and try ./configure again. >> >> WTF ?!?! > >Yeah, I have to concur on this one. It's never a good idea to >run configure/make as root. Configure scripts, specially, have a lot >of complex, obscur test code and what not. We've had issues in the >past with those which made us force our configure script to fail when run >as root. > >Only recently, and only because isolation technologies such as docker made >it such that it makes sense to run configure as root in these contexts did >we relax again our configure scripts to allow them to be run as root.. > >Romain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Savonet-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users
