Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] kbuild: Don't mess with the .cache.mk when root

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 04:31:42 EST


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 08:23:16AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > If Ingo wants to build as root, maybe we could even make him set some
> > environment flag to avoid errors.
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> I only build as root infrequently, but I think PeterZ does it more frequently?

Yeah, a bunch of my testboxes don't even have a regular user account.