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build: configure should warn about 'root' earlier (

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From: Michael Felt <mamfelt <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but friendliness issue
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 15:36:43 +0100

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Would be much nicer if ./configure complained at the beginning about being
root, rather than at the end.

regards,
Michael

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From: Michael Felt <mamfelt <at> gmail.com>
To: 12793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but
	friendliness issue
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 16:11:40 +0100

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Do not know when this came in (8.16, or 8.17) - but 8.17 also requires a
complete rerun of configure. 8.15 was so simple (or did I just not notice
it then?)

Michael

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Michael Felt <mamfelt <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Would be much nicer if ./configure complained at the beginning about being
> root, rather than at the end.
>
> regards,
> Michael
>

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Michael Felt <mamfelt <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 12793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug,
	but friendliness issue
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:34:38 +0000

On 11/03/2012 02:36 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
> Would be much nicer if ./configure complained at the beginning about being
> root, rather than at the end.

This comes from a specific test in gnulib:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c53ef81
rather than a coreutils policy decision.

I suppose that check could be hoisted to
one that is done up front?

thanks,
Pádraig.

Message #14 received at 12793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: Michael Felt <mamfelt <at> gmail.com>, 12793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug,
	but friendliness issue
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:12:52 -0700

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[adding gnulib]

On 11/03/2012 10:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 11/03/2012 02:36 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
>> Would be much nicer if ./configure complained at the beginning about
>> being
>> root, rather than at the end.
> 
> This comes from a specific test in gnulib:
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c53ef81
> rather than a coreutils policy decision.
> 
> I suppose that check could be hoisted to
> one that is done up front?

We can't directly host the entire test earlier - the test as written
can't detect failure under root until after the C compiler is known
(since it first tests for $? = 99 before checking the environment
variable).  Hoisting the entire test into GL_EARLY means it would come
before the compiler checks, which won't work.

But perhaps we could isolate just the environment variable test to come
first, without regards to the compiler test.  I'll play with that idea.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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Message #17 received at 12793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 12793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but
 friendliness issue
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:56:53 -0600

severity 12793 wishlist
retitle  12793 build: configure should warn about 'root' earlier ( 
FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 )
close 12793
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 05/11/12 08:12 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/03/2012 10:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 11/03/2012 02:36 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
>>> Would be much nicer if ./configure complained at the beginning about
>>> being
>>> root, rather than at the end.
>>
>> This comes from a specific test in gnulib:
>> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c53ef81
>> rather than a coreutils policy decision.
>>
> 
> But perhaps we could isolate just the environment variable test to come
> first, without regards to the compiler test.  I'll play with that idea.


With no further comments in 5 years, I'm closing this bug.
Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf

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