Running make as root and ./configure access to Makefile contents

2014-09-18 Thread Ian Grant
This is about the 66,00 lines of code that are in the confige script and are not routinely audited and are typically run as root. In http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2014-09/msg00098.html Neil Jerram proclaims: > People are absolutely NOT encouraged to run ./configure and > make as r

Re: Running make as root and ./configure access to Makefile contents

2014-09-18 Thread Ian Grant
From: Ed http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/misc/vanVlissingenInterview.html As to the programming products that are used by people, I hardly have first hand experience, my impression is that an enormous amount of user time is wasted figuring out what the system does and how to control it, which i

Re: Running make as root and ./configure access to Makefile contents

2014-10-09 Thread Mark H Weaver
Ian Grant writes: > This is about the 66,00 lines of code that are in the confige script > and are not routinely audited and are typically run as root. Anyone can avoid using this intermediate shell code, by cloning our git repo and running ./autogen.sh. Anyone can independently verify this inte