root umask and building ports

2013-08-04 Thread Karl Dunn
I discovered the hard way, when building ImageMagick-6.7.9.4 on 9.1-RELEASE, that having root's umask set to 077 is a mistake. Lots of directories and some files, in ImageMagick itself and some of the dependent ports, had other and group perms set to ---. No good. Hard to fix after the

Curious error messages when building ports?

2007-03-08 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hello, I hav seen this on FreeBSD 6-stable recently. Here is an example, from a machine running [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a FreeBSD kg-work.kg4.no 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Sat Jan 20 17:26:43 CET 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SS51G i386 I cd into

Building Ports

2001-08-29 Thread Doug Hardie
I just heard a most interest tale of woe. A new user installing 4.3-Release wanted some ports. I gave him specific instructions, in writing, on how to build those ports. For some reason he ignored the step to cd to the specific port and did essentially: cd /usr/ports make The system