From 8aee0bee5c852207c97492f0262b0939e2c5ed4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:49:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add prereq check to prevent people from building openwrt as
 root

SVN-Revision: 4655
---
 openwrt/include/prereq-build.mk | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/openwrt/include/prereq-build.mk b/openwrt/include/prereq-build.mk
index a6de9b270a..e90c3157b0 100644
--- a/openwrt/include/prereq-build.mk
+++ b/openwrt/include/prereq-build.mk
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/prereq.mk
 
+define Require/non-root
+	[ "$$(shell whoami)" != "root" ]
+endef
+$(eval $(call Require,non-root, \
+	Building OpenWrt as root is not supported! \
+))
+
 # Required for the toolchain
 define Require/working-make
 	echo 'all: test' > $(TMP_DIR)/check.mk