> The chown(1) error is due to my user (semarie) isn't member of wobj group
> (I only use snapshot on this host for upgrading).
> 
> This requirement for a build outside /usr/src seems a bit odd to me.
> Do I miss something ?

With a newly installed system (after Nov 25) you would not be able to do
'make obj' inside /usr/src either. It was mentioned on current.html that

  Developers MUST add their users to the group wobj, so that they can
  still write to /usr/{,x}obj

and this applies to this situation as well.  One of the requirements of
having the dedicated build user was that 'make build' also works for
source trees based outside /usr/src.  Since two different users need to
be able to write to the same location (obj/), there seems no way around
adding them both to the same group.

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