d/l,compiling question

[Ryan Thompson]

M.D. DeWar wrote to freebsd-questions at freebsd.org:

> Hello,
>
> I may have missed this. Sometimes in the docs for a application it
> will say at a point " you need to be root or have superuser
> permissions to do this "
>
> I normally login in as user then su - over to superuser.  (I hope
> thats the right terminology).  Then I do the ./configure makes etc.
>
> Is that okay to do ? or should I be just plain user till its time to
> make install ?

Your approach is fine.

- Ryan

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