Re: libtool, OS X, and GNU ranlib

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Tim Rice wrote:
> > >         Warn on darwin if install will overwrite /usr/bin/libtool
> > >         * configure.ac: Add warning.
>
> I would wonder why /usr/bin/libtool is writable by a user.
> Or why one would build software as root. I can't remember the
> last time I had to build a package as root.

The problem occurs when someone does

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Bob
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