Should I run make test as root

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Apr 18 16:15:57 MDT 2015


On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 15:05 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In running make test I noticed things failing because it could not do
> things it needed to, like creating files in system places.
> 
> Should I run the test as root?

No, if it needs root that is a bug.

What things were writing out the build root?

Andrew Bartlett

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