Re: misc/gnuls wants FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE

[Tim Zingelman <tez%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:37:09PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
>> The configure script in misc/gnuls  complains it is ran as root. I
>> had to add this to get the package to build:
>
> You should only need this if the effective uid at configure time is 0
> (and pkgsrc has JIT su capabilities to raise privileges only when
> needed)
>
> I just downloaded, configured and built the package with an effective
> uid of 1000.  From a sanity PoV, why are you doing everything as root?
>

I used to do everything (pkgsrc) as root out of lazyness... then some
malformed tool that had output redirected to /dev/null managed to rm
/dev/null and re-create it as a plain text file... that made for some
interesting bizarre behavior which took a fair amount of time to
figure out.  That motivated me to spend what turned out to be about 5
minutes figuring out how to use pgksrc as a regular user with the very
cool JIT su capability that Alistair mentions.  Highly recommended.

 - Tim