On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 2012/11/26 11:06, James Hartley wrote: > > checking whether mkfifo rejects trailing slashes... yes > > checking whether mknod can create fifo without root privileges... > > configure: error: in `/usr/ports/pobj/coreutils-8.20/coreutils-8.20': > > configure: error: you should not run configure as root (set > > FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment to bypass this check) > > See `config.log' for more details > > > Is this intentional for the build to fail when building as root? > > Given the error message, I would say yes. > > Following FAQ 15.3.3 gets past this problem, only to face a "cannot create directory" error later on in the build. I resolved that one by changing the ownership of the directories underneath /usr/ports to the user building the port. Ultimately, the port does build, but not without playing with permissions unlike what any other port requires in my limited experience. Given that I had reported an ephemeral issue with this port a few months (which also appeared to be introduced upstream...), I was only curious whether those building ports for the project had encountered these errors before. Thanks again, Stuart, for your reply as well as Vijay Sankar for correspondence off-list.
