Re: Build error as root on rev. 6611

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> De: "Brian Jameson" <[email protected]>
> À: [email protected]
> Envoyé: Dimanche 13 Mai 2012 13:01:07
> Objet: [IPCop-devel] Build error as root on rev. 6611
> 
> I guess this is known about but just in case... The recent changes have
> brought about the following build error under rev 6611 if being built by
> root. I know this is not advised but some people may do this, me included.
> 
> checking for mempcpy... (cached) yes
> checking for memrchr... yes
> checking whether mkdir handles trailing slash... yes
> checking whether mkdir handles trailing dot... yes
> checking whether mkfifo rejects trailing slashes... yes
> checking whether mknod can create fifo without root privileges...
> configure:
> error: in `/storage/ipcop4/trunk/build_i486/ipcop/usr/src/coreutils-8.17':
> 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
> make: ***
> [/storage/ipcop4/trunk/files_i486/01_toolchain/coreutils-8.17]
> Error 1
> 
> I shall now try and correct this bad proctice of mine and build as a normal
> user.
> 
> regards,
> Brian
> 
> 
Thank for the info.
Since it work well to build as non-root and should allow to break the host machine in case of mistake, I no more try the non-root way. Anyway I added FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 to coreutils toolchain instruction, this is already made for tar.

Gilles

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