[openfabrics-ewg] Some observations on the OFED build process

[Roland Dreier]

    Tziporet> The default RPMs build environment of Redhat requires
    Tziporet> root permission. Since we don't want to develop our own
    Tziporet> environment we requested root permission.

    Tziporet> If you want to change this you may sent us a patch.

Sorry, I don't have time to understand the build process enough to
produce a patch.  But changing %_topdir should be enough to build RPMS
as non-root.  For example I have the following in my .rpmmacros

%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild

which puts all generated files under ~/rpmbuild.

 - R.