On 2018/03/09 22:00, Adam Steen wrote:
> On March 7, 2018 10:49 PM, Klemens Nanni <k...@openbsd.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 09:16:11PM -0500, Adam Steen wrote:
> >
> > > On February 28, 2018 12:27 PM, Adam Steen a...@adamsteen.com.au wrote:
> > >
> > > > On February 28, 2018 12:26 PM, Adam Steen a...@adamsteen.com.au wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Here is a new port "devel/pkgconf", it is needed are part of my long
> > > > > term
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > kyua --config=none test --kyuafile='./Kyuafile' --build-root='.'
> >
> > 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?
Easiest is probably to set the PORTHOME make variable, something
like "PORTHOME= ${WRKDIR}" should do.
Ports infrastructure sets a distinctive HOME by default so that ports
writing there are more easily identified. This used to be more of a
problem when the "fake-install" stage was run as root, but nowadays
the build is more likely to fail due to lack of permissions rather
than quietly run and create this /xxx_writes_to_HOME directory.
