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

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