You really don't need the "./configure" there. make alone can obviously run arbitrary commands - but then again, so can the program whose source code you probab

You really don't need the "./configure" there. make alone can obviously run arbitrary commands - but then again, so can the program whose source code you probably downloaded in order to run it. In general, all the hype about not executing stuff from the web has a point but is largely confused about where the risks are and aren't (e.g. the "don't pipe wget into the shell" meme).