Re: [Monotone-devel] testsuite failed

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:06:37PM +0100, Wojciech Mi??kowski said
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> >Just to reemphasize that, there have been many occasions where I've
> >seriously considered making GCC bomb out if run as root.
> 
> I think it's nothing related to GCC ;). Yeah, I know that badly written 
> Makefiles could make a mess in the system running as root, but in case 
> we use it, it is harmless. We run make process in portage sandbox, which 
> prevents writing outside building directory. There's also option to 
> build as normal user, but it's just an option. We must consider all 
> possibilities, and it should work in all cases.

Why is the default to run as root?  That seems to be asking for trouble.

-rob

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