>Neither "make dist" nor "make distcheck" need to be run as root, nor should
>they. In fact, if you're on remote mounted filesystem, you may get problems
>if you try.
>The only targets that ever should need to be be run as root (or with sudo) are
>"make install" and "make uninstall" (and even they don't if you have specified
>--prefix and/or DESTDIR=) If anything else needs root permission, then it's
>either a bug in the automake file, or something very wierd with your system.
Thank you John
