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From: | Assaf Gordon |
Subject: | bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but friendliness issue |
Date: | Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:56:53 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
severity 12793 wishlistretitle 12793 build: configure should warn about 'root' earlier ( FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 )
close 12793 stop (triaging old bugs) On 05/11/12 08:12 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 11/03/2012 10:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: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.But perhaps we could isolate just the environment variable test to come first, without regards to the compiler test. I'll play with that idea.
With no further comments in 5 years, I'm closing this bug. Discussion can continue by replying to this thread. -assaf
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