On Mar 18, 2014, at 20:03, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 17:53, jordon wrote: >> Has anyone successfully built any ports on the BBB? I tried (with >> /usr/ports, /usr/src, and /usr/obj symlinked to directories on an NFS >> share) and always got errors, even though I was doing it as root. > > There can be oddities using symlinks (though maybe they were fixed). > Setting the right directory in /etc/mk.conf works better for me. > > Other thing to check is maproot=root. The default maps root to nobody. >
Ok, I’ve been revisiting this issue and in reviewing this thread, I just noticed the “maproot=root” suggestion. Yeah, that was my problem. Thanks! Jordon