Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:55:48 -0700 From: Nathan KInkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: nthomas@cise.ufl.edu Subject: Re: building ports *outside* /usr Message-ID: <20020428215548.65066eff.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> In-Reply-To: <20020429042001.GA28503@cise.ufl.edu> References: <20020429042001.GA28503@cise.ufl.edu>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:20:01 -0400 "N. Thomas" <nthomas@cise.ufl.edu> wrote: > I have regular-user access to a FreeBSD box and I would like to build some > software which is available through the ports tree. I downloaded the latest > ports sub-dir from the ftp site and try to build it in my home directory and > it doesn't work. > > I can't even build the simplest package, so I'm suspecting it is a result of > doing this outside of /usr/ports. > > What is the best way to do this, i.e. is there documentation available for > compiling packages outside /usr/ports? from: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html "Note: You must be the root user to install ports." there may be other reasons of which i'm not aware, but it seems that at least nominally, as a regular user, you will not have proper permission to read/write various directories where the application expects...such as directories where config files expect to be stored or where other shared objects may be located. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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