Hi Jeremie, > Why not use this solution? Building ports as root is not recommended. > espie's work on PORTS_PRIVSEP makes it super easy and clean to use > dedicated system accounts for this.
Just for curious, thanks very much for your help! Best Regards Nan Xiao On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 8:00 PM, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <j...@wxcvbn.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 17 2018, Nan Xiao <xiaonan830...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi ports@, >> >> Greeting from me! >> >> I use -current ports tree, and try to build sysutils/coreutils, and >> get following errors: >> >> ...... >> checking whether mknod can create fifo without root privileges... >> configure: error: in `/usr/ports/pobj/coreutils-8.29/coreutils-8.29': >> 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 >> *** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2688 >> 'do-configure': @for d in >> /usr/ports/pobj/coreutils-8.29/coreutils-8.29; do...) >> ...... >> >> I try use "export FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 && make install", but still >> not take effect. >> >> Besides change the owner to non-root, > > Why not use this solution? Building ports as root is not recommended. > espie's work on PORTS_PRIVSEP makes it super easy and clean to use > dedicated system accounts for this. > >> is there any method to bypass >> this issue? > > See CONFIGURE_ENV... > >> Thanks very much in advance! >> >> >> Best Regards >> Nan Xiao >> > > -- > jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
