From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Bug free programs Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:28:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20140917005748.8CXVB.21497.root@cdptpa-web03> <8738brsz82.fsf@yeeloong.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411032568 12936 80.91.229.3 (18 Sep 2014 09:29:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:29:28 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 18 11:29:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XUY1h-0000aB-2C for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:29:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUY1g-00078G-LG for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48232) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUY1W-00075P-8n for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:29:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUY1O-0000oz-RO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:29:10 -0400 Original-Received: from out1.ip02ir2.opaltelecom.net ([62.24.128.238]:43852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUY1O-0000gO-LQ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:29:02 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AooLAGylGlROkRj0PGdsb2JhbABggw2DWlCEN8Y6gxoEAgGBCxcBAQUBAQEBODeEBAEBAwEjDwEFHigLBAQDGgImAgIsDQoUIYguDKo7lkIYgRSIS4YHFoJigVMFnQyZJzyCeQEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: AooLAGylGlROkRj0PGdsb2JhbABggw2DWlCEN8Y6gxoEAgGBCxcBAQUBAQEBODeEBAEBAwEjDwEFHigLBAQDGgImAgIsDQoUIYguDKo7lkIYgRSIS4YHFoJigVMFnQyZJzyCeQEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,546,1406588400"; d="scan'208";a="281911" Original-Received: from host-78-145-24-244.as13285.net (HELO arudy) ([78.145.24.244]) by out1.ip02ir2.opaltelecom.net with ESMTP; 18 Sep 2014 10:28:54 +0100 Original-Received: by arudy (Postfix, from userid 33) id DDCEF38021; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:28:22 +0100 (BST) X-PHP-Originating-Script: 0:rcmail.php In-Reply-To: X-Sender: neil@ossau.homelinux.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.5 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 62.24.128.238 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:17482 Archived-At: On 2014-09-17 17:15, Ian Grant wrote: > When did you last audit these 66,000 lines of intermediate code, which > people are encouraged to run as root? [...] > ian3@jaguar:~/build/guile-2.0.11$ wc -l Makefile lib/Makefile > libguile/Makefile configure >    2373 Makefile >    4052 lib/Makefile >    3792 libguile/Makefile >   55901 configure >   66118 total People are absolutely NOT encouraged to run ./configure and make as root. In around 20 years of Guile development, I don't recall ever doing or encouraging that. Regards, Neil