Once again, you are holding it wrong.

Christian Schulte <cs@schulte.it> wrote:

> On 9/28/24 17:03, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > Why are you using a different user?
> 
> A different user than root? The following made me look into the OpenBSD
> build system.
> 
> 0x02$ make build
> umask 007; exec make do-build
> do-build must be called by root
> *** Error 1 in . (Makefile:84 'do-build': @if [[ `id -u` -ne 0 ]]; then
> echo do-build must be called by root >&2;  false;  fi)
> *** Error 2 in /usr/src (Makefile:74 'build')
> 
> "must be called by root"
> 
> Talking about building here, not installing.
> 
> Just starting to look into the build system and am trying to get various
> points.
> 
> Building should not require root privileges. I am far away from
> understanding the whole picture why that is needed, when it should not.
> There have been people around here mentioning that a "make build" would
> take days to complete on various architectures. Locally I am down from
> nearly 13h for a full base build to
> 
> 3m37.35s real     1m46.62s user     1m22.99s system
> 
> I am still reading lots of sources and am trying to find my way around.
> Building base should not require root privileges. Installing a freshly
> build base, of course.
> 
> -- 
> Christian