Re: Cross compiling user applications for armv7

Sulev-Madis Silber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]> 

On September 23, 2025 12:24:43 PM GMT+03:00, "Michał Kruszewski" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> make installworld/kernel won’t work without root privileges because it would create an invalid ‘world’
>> how would a setuid binary work after non-root install lets say passwd(1)
>
>I have no idea.
>However, embedded Linux build tools, for example Buildroot, are able to prepare valid target root files systems with valid permissions without requiring root privileges on the host machine.
>
>Regards,
>Michał
>

i like vaguely remember that there is such mode and combining it maybe creates tar with correct permissions which extracts properly. or makes image with makefs

mtree manifest?

didn't this all work?
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