[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Update Makefile to ensure has root privs

[Samuel Liddicott]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Leroy" <colin at colino.net>
To: <mplayer-dev-eng at mplayerhq.hu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Update Makefile to ensure has root
privs


> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:28:49 +0200 (CEST) Sylvain Petreolle
> <spetreolle at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> >  install: $(ALL_PRG)
> > +        @echo "Following task requires root privs. If it fails make
> > sure to be root or
>
> This is not always true, for example if I want to install in ~/software...

Yes.
Needing root for a build is uncommon; why?
RPM guidlines (rarely followed) hint that it is best to build NOT as root
and only install as root. (See the rpm build guidlines for courier imap if
you want more on this)

Sam