[Linux-disciples] Compiling from source -- config options

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:06:43PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> I've never heard of make configure. I would do:
>>
>> make clean
>> configure --with-mail-gid=mailman
>> make
> 
> 'make configure' seems to 'work' in some sense; certainly
> more than 'configure' on its own worked:
> 
> 	(17:12) slaniel at platform:/usr/ports/mail/mailman$ sudo configure --with-mail-gid=mailman
> 	Password:
> 	sudo: configure: command not found
> 
> Hm?

(1) You shouldn't be building anything as root. At least not in linux, and
I'm pretty sure not in *BSD etc. You may need to be root to install (sudo
make install) but otherwise don't be root.

(2) If for some reason you need to build up a package where files in the
tarball (or DEB) will be owned by root, use fakeroot. But that doesn't seem
to be the case here.

(3) If your really wanted to do the above, you would do

  sudo ./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman

(3)(a) You shouldn't generally have "dot" in your path; it can be a security
hole.

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