Subject: bug#12793: FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 - not really a bug, but friendliness issue

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
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