User build ports

How to build ports as a user on FreeBSD.

For example you can build ports from a committer account on “freefall” and related machines by setting a couple of lines in your “.profile”.

• Only your user home directory needs to be writeable.
• You can build most ports and their dependencies.

• The home can be shared between different archs.
• Successful build packages are cached.
• dependency to the installed “pkg” is lifted.

The PREFIX path I suggest is “/home/<user>/local-<arch>”

# .profile
 
# PREFIX will be /home/<user>/local-<arch>
export UNAMEM=`uname -m`
export LOCALBASE=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}
export X11BASE=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}
export PKG_DBDIR=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/var.db.pk
export PACKAGES=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/packages
export __MAKE_CONF=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/etc/make.conf
export PORT_DBDIR=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/options
 
# Extend path so we can run dependent programs
export PATH=${HOME}/bin:${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/bin:${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/sbin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/lib
export LD_RUN_PATH=${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/lib
 
# Tell Makefile who owns it all
export INSTALL_AS_USER=yes
export WHOAMI=`whoami`
export BINOWN=${WHOAMI}
export BINGRP=${WHOAMI}
export MANOWN=${WHOAMI}
export MANGRP=${WHOAMI}
 
# ranlib on readonly libs don't work
export SHAREMODE=644
 
# ldconfig must write, so we change the options
export LDCONFIG="/sbin/ldconfig -i -f ${HOME}/local-${UNAMEM}/etc/ldconfig.hints"
 
# The place for cached distfiles shared, with all archs
export DISTDIR=${HOME}/distfiles
 
# Decide where temp build stuff
export WRKDIRPREFIX=${HOME}/work
 
# Finally we may use our own ports tree
export PORTSDIR=${HOME}/ports
 
# We like to cache and save the packages
export USE_PACKAGE_DEPENDS="yes"
export DEPENDS_SHOW_FLAVOR="yes"
export DEPENDS_TARGET="package install"
 
# We use the installed pkg, but do not depend on it
export PKG_DEPENDS=
export PKG_PREFIX=/usr/local
export PKG_BIN=/usr/local/sbin/pkg-static