On March 10, 2018 10:30 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
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> On 2018/03/09 22:00, Adam Steen wrote:
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> > On March 7, 2018 10:49 PM, Klemens Nanni k...@openbsd.org wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 09:16:11PM -0500, Adam Steen wrote:
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> > > > On February 28, 2018 12:27 PM, Adam Steen a...@adamsteen.com.au wrote:
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> > > > > On February 28, 2018 12:26 PM, Adam Steen a...@adamsteen.com.au wrote:
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> > > > > > Here is a new port "devel/pkgconf", it is needed are part of my
> > > > > > long term
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> > > > > > goal to port MirageOS/Solo5 to OpenBSD/vmm.
> > >
> > > Glad to hear that, thanks for your efforts!
> > >
> > > > I would like to get this added, is there anything more I need to do?
> > >
> > > Please use a single space before and tabs after = in Makefile.
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> > > VERSION can be zapped and put into DISTNAME directly.
> > >
> > > The port looks good to me so far except for tests, you're currently
> > >
> > > missing devel/kyua-cli as TDEP. With it, the following error occurs:
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> > > kyua --config=none test --kyuafile='./Kyuafile' --build-root='.'
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> > > kyua: E: Failed to create directory /pkgconf-1.4.2\_writes\_to_HOME:
> > > Permission denied.
> >
> > Hi Klemens
> >
> > I am new to ports, I have completed the fixes you suggested and now am
> > working on ensuring the tests complete.
> >
> > I take it the ports infrastructure prevents ports from writing to $HOME,
> > and this where the error is coming from. To fix the problem do I need to
> > configure the tests to write to, somewhere ? /tmp? instead? where is the
> > preferred location? or am I miss understanding something?
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> Easiest is probably to set the PORTHOME make variable, something
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> like "PORTHOME= ${WRKDIR}" should do.
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> Ports infrastructure sets a distinctive HOME by default so that ports
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> writing there are more easily identified. This used to be more of a
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> problem when the "fake-install" stage was run as root, but nowadays
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> the build is more likely to fail due to lack of permissions rather
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> than quietly run and create this /xxx\_writes\_to_HOME directory.
Hi Stuart
That worked a treat, i will run through the setup again and make sure things
work from "wo to go" and then come back with a complete port.
Cheers
Adam
