Difference between sudo make and sudo -s ; make What are the differences between sudo make and sudo -s make First example do not work with my software, there is always a header file missing. Login as root with `sudo -s` and compile works fine. So what are the differences, wherefore `sudo make` is not working?

`sudo -s` runs the command as root in a shell referenced by the environment variable `SHELL`

`sudo` runs the command as root in the same shell as the original user