From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 2:58:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F23037B416 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.localhost.local (localhost.local [127.0.0.1]) by freebsd.localhost.local (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g3T4tmJ03822; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:55:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.com) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:55:48 -0700 From: Nathan KInkade 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 00:20:01 -0400 "N. Thomas" 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