Bug 4056 – could make installed without sgid?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Holler 2002-06-23 09:25:36 UTC]

I would prefer it, if make could be installed without sgid. It seems that the 
only reasoon fffor the sgid bit is ooption -l for which make needs to access 
/dev/kmem. Because I believe that almost nobody ever uses this option, I vote 
for a installation of make without sgid. 
 
First it's allways nice to have one programm more without sgid and second 
checkinstall doesn't work with a sgid make. ;)

[Comment 1 Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED) 2002-08-01 09:23:48 UTC]

AFAIK, make under linux doesn't require the sgid bit because it reads from  
/proc instead. /dev/kmem isn't even owned by group kmem! 

[Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-08-07 16:29:34 UTC]

Fixed in -r4.