Re: Cross compiling user applications for armv7

Michał_Kruszewski <mkru_at_protonmail.com> wrote on
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:36:25 UTC :

> Interesting, on my machine FreeBSD 14.3 the following:
>   make NO_ROOT=YES installworld -j 11
> fails because of some permission denies.
> Nevertheless, it is a minor issue, compared to all the other stuff.

Just trying to avoid a likely misleading confusion based
on the above wording . . .

The above is missing essential sequencing information:
the make command succeeds but later use of the install
is rejected by pkg for violating its checks on file
ownership/permission requirements. pkg was in uses via
poudreire(-devel) that had null mounted the installed
world. The messages from pkg-static that were reported
are:

pkg-static: . wrong user or group ownership (expected 0/0 versus actual 1001/1001)

in the intial report but the later reports showed that
pkg-static was reporting:

pkg-static: . wrong user or group ownership (expected 0/0 versus actual 1001/0)

Warner replicated the issue with pkg (directly used).
He found that he could avoid the issue with:

pkg -o INSTALL_AS_USER=yes

involved but that INSTALL_AS_USER use did not work
when set as an environment variable, despite how
"man pkg" reads.

If you care, see Warner's note:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm/2025-September/005227.html

As far as I can tell looking at the code, poudriere has
no support for any form of use of INSTALL_AS_USER for
its use of pkg-static and pkg commands. poudrere-devel's
documentation makes no reference to INSTALL_AS_USER .

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com