Re: [HACKERS] make install fails in perl5 ...

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > So, who took the root check out, and when, and why?
>
> Well, I didn't do it, but I agree with whoever took it out. You cannot
> test at *configure* time to see whether the invoker of configure is
> root. It is not reasonable to expect people to do the configure and
> build as root, even if they su to root for the install step (which
> is surely the WRONG thing for a Postgres install anyway!)

Hmmm. That's how I do it, although it *is* a PITA to chown everything
to do the regression tests. It just seems odd to have one package
install this way when all the other packages I install are done from
root.

Vince.
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