On 2014/03/18 21:03, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 17:53, jordon wrote: > > Has anyone successfully built any ports on the BBB? I tried (with > > /usr/ports, /usr/src, and /usr/obj symlinked to directories on an NFS > > share) and always got errors, even though I was doing it as root. > > There can be oddities using symlinks (though maybe they were fixed). > Setting the right directory in /etc/mk.conf works better for me. > > Other thing to check is maproot=root. The default maps root to nobody. >
Building ports with a work directory on NFS is likely to be unreliable, I've had problems in the past (iirc it may have been to do with gmake and timestamps, though not 100% sure). Local storage, or (for small ports) mfs or tmpfs are likely to work better.
