Hi! On Sun Aug 31, 2003 at 07:13:07PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 31 August 2003 19:03, ZekeVarg wrote: > > I'm trying to compile a program but #./configure ends with this > > error: > > Don't build stuff as root (I suppose you did that because of the # > prompt...). It's not only bad style, it's also a security risk. > Compile the stuff as user and only install it as root. I go even farther and don't install as root. Put yourself into the staff group and install into /usr/local or better use a package manager like stow and install into /usr/local/stow/foo-x.y So long Thomas -- .''`. Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. - W. R. Stevens : :' : Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki at ull dot at> `. `'` 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B `- http://bigfish.ull.at/~djmaecki/
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