Re: make loses LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Paul D. Smith]

GNU make has been installed as a setgid program.  Various "dangerous"
environment variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH are removed from the
environment of setuid and setgid programs (I'm sure you can understand
why!!)

It's odd that it was installed that way, though; it only does that on
systems where it thinks it needs to be setgid kmem or similar to read
the kernel memory to find the load average information, for -l.

On Linux you don't need that, since there are other ways to find it that
don't require privileges.

You might take a look through your config.log file and see if you can
determine why configure decided it needed to be setgid.

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