I'm running OS X 10.9.2 with macports 2.2.1 and hit a problem with 'port build' invoking a port's "./configure" script and having "test -w /var/tmp" fail.
I modified the configure script with some debug statements and realized it was running with user "macports" and group "macports": ====== :info:configure + /usr/bin/id -g -n :info:configure macports :info:configure + /usr/bin/id -g -nr :info:configure macports :info:configure + /usr/bin/id -u -n :info:configure macports :info:configure + /usr/bin/id -u -nr :info:configure macports ====== I also verified that it could write to /var/tmp even though the test -w was failing: ====== :info:configure + ls -dl /var/tmp :info:configure drwxrwxrwt 8 root wheel 272 May 10 16:12 /var/tmp :info:configure + test -w /var/tmp :info:configure + echo 1 :info:configure 1 :info:configure + rm /var/tmp/zz1 :info:configure + touch /var/tmp/zz1 :info:configure + ls -l /var/tmp/zz1 :info:configure -rw-r--r-- 1 macports wheel 0 May 10 16:12 /var/tmp/zz1 ====== To simplify variables in play, I wrote a trivial program to do what the shell is doing, running access("/var/tmp", W_OK), and that it failed returning -1 with errno set to EPERM(1) (for reference, program at end of mail): ====== :info:configure + /tmp/acc :info:configure access = -1 1 :info:configure + echo 1 :info:configure 1 ====== However, trying to emulate the problem outside of the 'port build' environment didn't work: ====== $ ls -dl /var/tmp drwxrwxrwt 8 root wheel 272 May 10 17:09 /var/tmp $ sudo -u macports -g macports /bin/sh -c 'test -w /var/tmp;echo $?' 0 $ sudo -u macports -g macports /tmp/acc access = 0 0 ====== Both succeeded just fine. Any ideas why under "port build" access(2) returns EPERM on "/var/tmp" and how best to resolve this problem? Quentin === acc.c === #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> int main() { int ret = access("/var/tmp", W_OK); fprintf(stderr, "access = %d %d\n", ret, errno); return ret ? 1 : 0; } ============= _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users