>Try something simple and quick first. math/moo is a good one.

It did build successfully, thanks.

>Neither. Setup sudo or doas so that your user can run things as root
and pass environment variables through, and set the SUDO variable in
/etc/mk.conf.

Thanks, it did the trick.

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 10:19 PM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org>
wrote:

> On 2024/09/10 18:30, Neel chakraborty wrote:
> > I have checked out a copy of the ports tree from CVS, and I am trying to
> install rust.
> > I am running OpenBSD 7.5 and not -current.
>
> Try something simple and quick first. math/moo is a good one.
>
> > However, I face the following error on running make install
> > pkg_add: pkg_add must be run as root
> >
> > Do I then run doas make install? Or is it a bug?
>
> Neither. Setup sudo or doas so that your user can run things as root
> and pass environment variables through, and set the SUDO variable in
> /etc/mk.conf.
>
> e.g.
>
> for sudo, have an entry like "yourusername ALL = SETENV: ALL"
> and set "SUDO=sudo -E"
>
> for doas, have an entry like "permit keepenv persist yourusername"
> and set "SUDO=doas"
>
>

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