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Re: misc/gnuls wants FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE



On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:37:09 +0000
Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> The configure script in misc/gnuls  complains it is ran as root. I
> had to add this to get the package to build:
> 
> +CONFIGURE_ENV+=        FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=yes
> Is it okay to commit, or do I miss something subbtle?

This needs to go into coreutils' Makefile.common instead.

Is this something about insecure temp files usage? If so, it is
probably far from only package that would have such issues when
building as root so yeah I think it'd be OK to force it.


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