Re: non-privileged package builds and embedded paths

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 04:50:30PM +1000, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> this is thankfully a moot problem for me at the moment, as neither mtree
> or bmake are big enough to require external pkgsrc-supplied libraries
> but I thought I would ask anyway - in my vagrant host I can certainly
> create a user which mimics the one I would ordinarily use outside world
> but this seems to be brittle if my home directory is different

If it was only rpath references, it could be worked around. But a lot of
programs hard-code the prefix into the binaries, i.e. for finding
modules. In case of bmake, it would be the location of the mk files.

Joerg