Error when compiling Zig from source

sudo

I recommend to never use sudo to install any software, ever, including Zig.

Leave your package manage to manage your root-owned directories.

When building from source, a good prefix is ~/.local. With zig build, that would be -p ~/.local.

To build from source, please follow the instructions. If you only want to use Zig and not contribute to it, I recommend instead to download it.

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