On 2025-12-31, Bill Deegan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM Keith Thompson wrote: > >> When I build Python from source, the "sudo make install" step >> creates root-owned files in the build directory. I have not seen >> this while building other open-source packages from source.
That does seem little off. [However, I generally use Gentoo's package manager to build install pretty much everything (including Python).] One normally does the "make" as a normal user, then "make install" as root. I'd say it's a bit rude for the latter to leave root-owned files in the build directory. > don't use "sudo" before make install Then how will it be able to install files in the appropriate system-wide locations (e.g. under /usr/local/)? -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-list.python.org
