On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:01:26PM +0100, Nick Wilson wrote: > > * On 17-01-02 at 22:47, Emmanuel Seyman said.... > > > > Call it extreme paranoia but I prefer not to compile anything as root. > > I have a "build" directory in my $HOME where I put all the tarballs > > I download. > > Well, that sounds reasonable but don't you have to 'make install' as > root if you want to make programs availabe to other users?
Yup. After having built the program in ~/build/foobar-1.2.3/, I do `su -c "make install"` and type in the root password. Emmanuel _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
