Re: M4 1.4.14 on AIX 7.1BETA

[Rainer Tammer]

Hello,

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/30/2010 05:11 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>   
>> Other than that:
>>
>> About mknod, the logs say:
>>   configure:40991: checking whether mknod can create fifo without root 
>> privileges
>>   configure:41015: xlc -o conftest -g  -D_THREAD_SAFE  conftest.c  >&5
>>   configure:41015: $? = 0
>>   configure:41015: ./conftest
>>   configure:41015: $? = 1
>>   configure: program exited with status 1
>> You shouldn't be running configure as root; this is dangerous!
>>     
> Agreed.
>
>   
I know, but this is only a test LPAR with nothing els installed (no
other accounts yet)...

If you execute this under a non privileged user you get:

configure:40991: checking whether mknod can create fifo without root
privileges
configure:41015: cc -qlanglvl=extc89 -qlanglvl=extc99 -o conftest -g 
-D_THREAD_SAFE  conftest.c  >&5
configure:41015: $? = 0
configure:41015: ./conftest
configure:41015: $? = 0
configure:41026: result: yes

> Hmm - we could probably beef up that m4 test to default to explicitly
> exiting configure if we detect that a superuser was running the test,
> with an environment variable required to override and run the test as
> root anyway.
>
>   
Bye
  Rainer

Bye
  Rainer

Bye
  Rainer