[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: 2.1.1 under 10.1 [was Python package maker for OS X Installer.app]

[Steve Spicklemire]

Hi Jack,

	My naive guess is that folks try "make install", and when that 
fails (since "normal" users aren't allowed to create directories in the 
default area: /usr/local/...) they decide to run the install as root so 
that it will be allowed. Isn't this what most folks do on most unixish 
systems anyway? Is there some security problem with this?

thanks,
-steve

On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 05:54 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
>> I can build 2.1.1 fine under 10.1 (on a UFS partition) using:
>>
>> env LDFLAGS='-flat_namespace' OPT='-no-cpp-precomp' \
>>      ./configure --with-dyld
>
> Ah, great!
>
>> make
>> make test
>> sudo make install
>
> Why are so many people using "sudo make install"? This is a really bad 
> idea, I
> think, to install Python owned by root, but a lot of people seem to do 
> this.
> Is there something in the documentation somewhere that suggests this? 
> Another
> reason?
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