Comment #1 originally posted by brian@microcomaustralia.com.au on 2011-02-16T03:19:14.000Z:

I agree with this report. The current behaviour was very much unexpected; I don't expect processes to run with root privileges unless I specifically say so.

(not to mention the minor issue that not all my systems have sudo installed, so make install presumably will error out on these systems even though I might already have root privileges).

Comment #2 originally posted by markus@google.com on 2011-03-09T20:18:11.000Z:

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Comment #3 originally posted by markus@google.com on 2011-03-10T08:45:42.000Z:

We now print a message informing the user that we are about to invoke "sudo". Let me know, if that still results in problems.

Comment #4 originally posted by vivek@khera.org on 2011-03-10T14:02:27.000Z:

That fix doesn't really address the issue. The user should invoke sudo on the make, not just be warned it is going to be invoked for them. It is just bad form to invoke sudo from within the makefile itself.