Morning,

On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:56 +0100, Alf Høgemark wrote:

Hi

I'm trying to do a full build of ipfire, following instructions on : http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/development/build

I have been able to do a full build (except for build of cdrom failing, it seems to be tar complaining that usb/bin/ntpd and other ntp files are missing), but I am wondering why I need to run the make.sh as root.

To fix the ntp issue, just pull again and rebuild.

make.sh must be run as root.

I can see in the make.sh that a symlink is made for "/tools", so I guess one needs root for that. Is that the only reason ? Or is the build process putting files on my computer outside the folder where I have the source code repo from git ?

The /tools symlink is the only thing that is created outside the build/ directory. The other reason why we need root permissions is to create files inside the build chroot tree as root.

Could one use the "fakeroot" command instead, if needed ?

Yes, fakeroot could be used instead of actual root permissions, but we don't use it.

I do not like runing build commands as root, being afraid that something is installed / changed somewhere on my development machine. So it would mean that I need a separate virtual build machine for building ipfire.

Indeed, having an extra machine for this purpose does not hurt because virtualization provides a good container that isolates the build system from the host system.

-Michael

Regards Alf

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