Re: [Sbcl-devel] Building as root

[Brian M. <bma...@cs...>]

On Mar 14, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Christophe Rhodes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think building software as root is generally a bad idea, and
> shouldn't be encouraged.  I don't know that I would normally actively
> discourage it, except that it seems to be the cause both of the
> FreeBSD /almost-certainly-does-not-exist/ directory creation bug, and
> also Debian bug #232906.

No, the cause of that bug is the assumption that / will be non-writable 
when building. OS X has an administrator group (admin), and / is mode 
775 root:admin . Thus, even when logged in as non-root, SBCL creates 
this directory.

> So I'd like to propose the attached patch.  If someone knows of a
> system where the building absolutely must be performed as root, then
> shout, because otherwise the system will actively oppose it.  (Also, I
> will nonetheless comment out the offending mkdir test in
> posix-tests.lisp)

Thanks! I'm officially sick of deleting this directory :-)
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Brian Mastenbrook
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