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Bug 342737

Summary: tar-1.23-r4: requires FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Toei Rei <gbugs>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Toei Rei 2010-10-26 10:21:01 UTC
./configure spits out the following message before it dies...

configure: error: you should not run configure as root (set FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment to bypass this check)
See `config.log' for more details.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-10-26 10:31:33 UTC
not true, 1.24 does though

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 342593 ***