bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but friendliness issue

[Pádraig Brady]

On 11/03/2012 02:36 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
> Would be much nicer if ./configure complained at the beginning about being
> root, rather than at the end.

This comes from a specific test in gnulib:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c53ef81
rather than a coreutils policy decision.

I suppose that check could be hoisted to
one that is done up front?

thanks,
Pádraig.