Does anyone here have familiarity with openbsd ports? I'm trying to install git on an openbsd 5.5 system, and so far it's not going good. I imagine if I ran make install as root it would work, Or, if I gave it sudo privileges it would work.
The problem seems to be that openbsd 5.5 changed from using getdirentries to getdents for performance reasons. However, at the same time, they removed native-getdirentries from the systrace config. Meanwhile, git depends on what I think is a perl5 package: p5-Error, But p5-Error's install wants to chown root at install time. And this fails when installing as an unprivileged user because the fake install mechanism does not support tracking ownership information for the package system. It also fails when using systrace because of the getdirentries thing. Anyways, I could just run this at root, but problems like this are an ideal setting for learning about an OS, so I am looking for someone with sufficient knowledge of OpenBSD, and a little time and interest, to hold my hand for a bit. (Or, failing that, I guess I can take this to the openbsd forums, but I'd want to spend some more time reading the docs before I took that step.) [I'm want to get J working properly on OpenBSD - this will help me address a variety of its issues on other platforms.] Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
