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-rw-r--r--configure.ac10
-rw-r--r--src/Makefile.am11
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 89b56186..5752c622 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -53,16 +53,6 @@ please see the section "LIBGUESTFS VERSION NUMBERS" in guestfs(3).
***])
])
-dnl Die if the user tries to configure as root, see:
-dnl https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-April/msg00098.html
-AC_MSG_CHECKING([if you are trying to configure as root])
-AS_IF([test "`id -u`" = 0 ],[
- AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
- AC_MSG_FAILURE([Don't run './configure' or 'make' as root.])
- ],[
- AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
- ])
-
dnl Early gnulib initialization.
gl_EARLY
gl_INIT
diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index 4827e271..2b9c49ba 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -186,14 +186,3 @@ stamp-guestfs.pod: guestfs.pod \
--insert guestfs-structs.pod:@STRUCTS@ \
$<
touch $@
-
-# Check user doesn't try to do 'make all' or 'make check' as root.
-# https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-April/msg00098.html
-
-all-local: checkroot
-check-local: checkroot
-checkroot:
- @if [ "`id -u`" = 0 ]; then \
- echo "*** Error: Don't run 'make' or 'make check' as root."; \
- exit 1; \
- fi