> The standard recommendation is not to do anything as root that you don't
> have to ("thou shalt not take the name of root in vain"), but it should
> work either way.
I never sign in as root. Use sudo: sudo make
Of course your user name has to be in the sudoers file.
You are suppose to use visudo to edit it but I did it by hand before I heard about visudo.
Be Well
mark