On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:13:21PM -0400, Mitchell Schoenbrun wrote:
> On my second attempt at building packages I've tried to do all builds as
> a user, not root.   This creates the need to become super-user during
> the install, so I've repeatedly needed to enter my root password.
> 
> With groff however, there was "bmake" step that did not work without
> starting as root.   The step involved the ln command.
> 
> This is not really a problem, but I thought it was curious enough to
> mention.

Yes, this is due to a temporary workaround which
attempts to not tickle the proc bug mentioned
on the bootstrap page.

-seanb