SU_CMD= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/sudo doesn't seem to work

[ghost]

If I understand chapter 9.12 (http://www.netbsd-france.org/docs/pkgsrc/faq.html#using-sudo-with-pkgsrc) correctly:

When installing packages as non-root user and using the just-in-time su(1) feature of pkgsrc, it can become annoying to type in the root password for each required package installed. To avoid this, the sudo package can be used, which does password caching over a limited time. To use it, install sudo (either as binary package or from security/sudo) and then put the following into your mk.conf, somewhere after the definition of the LOCALBASE variable:

.if exists(${LOCALBASE}/bin/sudo)
SU_CMD=        ${LOCALBASE}/bin/sudo /bin/sh -c
.endif

I tried this, and tried substitutin /usr/bin/bash for /bin/sh and finally chopped everything off after the sudo,
but I still need (e.g. in pkgsrc/doc/guide when doing a simple $bmake as a non-root user) to break out in each dependency package and do a sudo bmake install... simple bmake install gives the following type of error:

richard@devzone:~/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts$ bmake install
=> Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: found digest-20111104
WARNING: [license.mk] Every package should define a LICENSE.
===> Building binary package for tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2
=> Creating binary package /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/packages/All/tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2.tgz
pkg_create: cannot create archive: Failed to open '/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/packages/All/tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2.tmp.tgz'
*** Error code 2

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts

I checked the following:

richard@devzone:~/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts$ bmake show-var VARNAME=LOCALBASE
/opt/pkg
richard@devzone:~/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts$ bmake show-var VARNAME=SU_CMD
/opt/pkg/bin/sudo
richard@devzone:~/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts$ bmake show-var VARNAME=SH
/usr/bin/bash

here is the shell level debug output

set -e;/usr/bin/env AWK=/opt/pkg/bin/nawk PKG_ADMIN=/opt/pkg/sbin/pkg_admin\ -K\ /var/opt/pkg/db/pkg  PKGSRCDIR=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc PWD_CMD=/bin/pwd SED=/opt/pkg/bin/nbsed  /usr/bin/bash /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/mk/pkgformat/pkg/list-dependencies  " "\ \ digest\>=20010302:../../pkgtools/digest " " " " |                while read type pattern dir; do                     test "$type" = "bootstrap" || continue;         pkg=`/opt/pkg/sbin/pkg_info -K /var/opt/pkg/db/pkg -E "$pattern" || true`;      case $type in bootstrap) Type=Bootstrap;; build) Type=Build;; full) Type=Full;; esac;  case "$pkg" in                           "")                                 echo "=>" "$Type dependency $pattern: NOT found";   target=package-install;                 echo "=>" "Verifying $target for $dir";         [ -d "$dir" ] || /usr/bin/bash /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/mk/scripts/fail echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "[depends.mk] The directory \`\`$dir'' does not exist.";  cd $dir;                       /usr/bin/env  PATH=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.wrapper/bin:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.buildlink/bin:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.tools/bin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/sbin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin USE_DESTDIR=yes _PKGSRC_DEPS=" tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2" PKGNAME_REQD="$pattern" /opt/pkg/bin/bmake _MAKE=/opt/pkg/bin/bmake OPSYS=SunOS OS_VERSION=5.11 LOWER_OPSYS=solaris _PKGSRCDIR=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc _HOSTNAME=devzone OBJHOSTNAME= PKGTOOLS_VERSION=20120221 _CC=/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin/gcc _PATH_ORIG=/opt/pkg/sbin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin _AUTOMATIC=yes $target;  pkg=`/opt/pkg/sbin/pkg_info -K /var/opt/pkg/db/pkg -E "$pattern" || true`;  case "$pkg" in                      "")    echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "[depends.mk] A package matching \`\`$pattern'' should";  echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "    be installed, but one cannot be found.  Perhaps there is a";  echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "    stale work directory for $dir?";  exit 1;                         esac;                           echo "=>" "Returning to build of tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2";      ;;                          *)                              objfmt=`/opt/pkg/sbin/pkg_info -K /var/opt/pkg/db/pkg -Q OBJECT_FMT "$pkg"`;        case "$objfmt" in                   "")    echo 1>&2 "WARNING:" "[depends.mk] Unknown object format for installed package $pkg" ;;  ELF)   ;;                   *) echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "[depends.mk] Installed package $pkg has an";  echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "    object format \`\`$objfmt'' which differs from \`\`ELF''.  Please";  echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "    update the $pkg package to ELF.";  exit 1;                        ;;                      esac;                           silent=;            if test -z "${silent}"; then            echo "=>" "$Type dependency $pattern: found $pkg";  fi;                             ;;                          esac;               done
=> Bootstrap dependency digest>=20010302: found digest-20111104
set -e; for w in "[license.mk] Every package should define a LICENSE." ; do echo "WARNING: $w"; done
WARNING: [license.mk] Every package should define a LICENSE.
set -e; set -e;                          case checksum-phase in                      *-phase)   test ! -f /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.extract_done || exit 0 ;;    esac;                               if cd /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/distfiles && /usr/bin/env DIGEST=/opt/pkg/bin/digest CAT=/usr/bin/cat    ECHO=echo SED=/opt/pkg/bin/nbsed            TEST=test                   /usr/bin/bash /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/mk/checksum/checksum /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/distinfo tex-amsfonts-15878/amsfonts.tar.xz; then  true;                        else                                echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "Make sure the Makefile and checksum file (/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/distinfo)";  echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "are up to date.  If you want to override this check, type";  echo 1>&2 "ERROR:" "\"/opt/pkg/bin/bmake NO_CHECKSUM=yes [other args]\".";  exit 1;                             fi
set -e;                  if test -n "" &&  /opt/pkg/sbin/pkg_info -K /var/opt/pkg/db/pkg -qe tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2; then  echo ===\> "Skipping installation of already handled package";  else  cd /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts                             && /usr/bin/env  PATH=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.wrapper/bin:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.buildlink/bin:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.tools/bin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/sbin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin USE_DESTDIR=yes /opt/pkg/bin/bmake _MAKE=/opt/pkg/bin/bmake OPSYS=SunOS OS_VERSION=5.11 LOWER_OPSYS=solaris _PKGSRCDIR=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc _HOSTNAME=devzone OBJHOSTNAME= PKGTOOLS_VERSION=20120221 _CC=/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin/gcc _PATH_ORIG=/opt/pkg/sbin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin _PKGSRC_BARRIER=yes ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES= install  || {                              exitcode="$?";                      /usr/bin/env  PATH=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.wrapper/bin:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.buildlink/bin:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.tools/bin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/sbin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin USE_DESTDIR=yes /opt/pkg/bin/bmake _MAKE=/opt/pkg/bin/bmake OPSYS=SunOS OS_VERSION=5.11 LOWER_OPSYS=solaris _PKGSRCDIR=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc _HOSTNAME=devzone OBJHOSTNAME= PKGTOOLS_VERSION=20120221 _CC=/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin/gcc _PATH_ORIG=/opt/pkg/sbin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin _PKGSRC_BARRIER=yes barrier-error-check;  exit "$exitcode";                  };  fi
===> Building binary package for tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2
set -e; /usr/bin/rm -f /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/packages/All/tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2.tgz
set -e;/usr/bin/mkdir -p /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb
set -e;/usr/bin/rm -f /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp
set -e; (echo LOCALBASE=/opt/pkg ; echo PKGINFODIR=info ; echo PKGMANDIR=man ; echo _USE_DESTDIR=user-destdir ; echo PKG_SYSCONFBASEDIR=/etc/opt/pkg ; echo PKG_SYSCONFDIR=/etc/opt/pkg ; echo PKGPATH=fonts/tex-amsfonts ; echo OPSYS=SunOS ; echo OS_VERSION=5.11 ; echo MACHINE_ARCH=x86_64 ; echo MACHINE_GNU_ARCH=x86_64 ; echo ABI=64 ; echo CPPFLAGS=\ \  ; echo CFLAGS=-O ; echo FFLAGS=-O ; echo LDFLAGS=\ \ \ -L/opt/pkg/gcc47/lib/gcc/x86_64-sun-solaris2.11/4.7.0\ -Wl,-R/opt/pkg/gcc47/lib/gcc/x86_64-sun-solaris2.11/4.7.0\ -L/opt/pkg/gcc47/lib\ -Wl,-R/opt/pkg/gcc47/lib\ -Wl,-R/opt/pkg/lib ; echo OBJECT_FMT=ELF ; echo LICENSE= ; echo RESTRICTED= ; echo NO_SRC_ON_FTP= ; echo NO_SRC_ON_CDROM= ; echo NO_BIN_ON_FTP= ; echo NO_BIN_ON_CDROM= ; echo CONFIGURE_ENV=INSTALL_INFO=\ MAKEINFO=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.tools/bin/makeinfo\ FLEX=\ BISON=\ PKG_CONFIG=\ PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.buildlink/lib/pkgconfig:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.buildlink/share/pkgconfig\ PKG_CONFIG_LOG=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkg-config.log\ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=\ MAKE=make\ WRAPPER_DEBUG=no\ WRAPPER_UPDATE_CACHE=yes\ CC=gcc\ CFLAGS=-O\ CPPFLAGS=\ CXX=g++\ CXXFLAGS=-O\ COMPILER_RPATH_FLAG=-Wl,-R\ F77=f77\ FC=f77\ FFLAGS=-O\ LANG=C\ LC_COLLATE=C\ LC_CTYPE=C\ LC_MESSAGES=C\ LC_MONETARY=C\ LC_NUMERIC=C\ LC_TIME=C\ LDFLAGS=-L/opt/pkg/gcc47/lib/gcc/x86_64-sun-solaris2.11/4.7.0\\\ -Wl,-R/opt/pkg/gcc47/lib/gcc/x86_64-sun-solaris2.11/4.7.0\\\ -L/opt/pkg/gcc47/lib\\\ -Wl,-R/opt/pkg/gcc47/lib\\\ -Wl,-R/opt/pkg/lib\ LINKER_RPATH_FLAG=-R\ PATH=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.wrapper/bin:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.buildlink/bin:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.tools/bin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/sbin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/gcc47/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/pkg/bin:/opt/pkg/bin\ PREFIX=/opt/pkg\ PKG_SYSCONFDIR=/etc/opt/pkg\ CPP=cpp\ CXXCPP=cpp\ HOME=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.home ; echo CONFIGURE_ARGS= ; echo CMAKE_ARGS= ; echo _PLIST_IGNORE_FILES= ;)   > /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp
set -e;echo "PKGTOOLS_VERSION=20091115" >> /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp
set -e;echo "HOMEPAGE=http://www.tug.org/texlive/" >> /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp
set -e;echo "CATEGORIES=print" >> /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp
set -e;echo "MAINTAINER=minskim@NetBSD.org" >> /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp
set -e;echo "BUILD_DATE=2012-10-25 19:02:38 +0200" >> /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp
set -e;echo "BUILD_HOST=SunOS devzone 5.11 oi_151a7 i86pc i386 i86pc" >> /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp
set -e;                              case "" in                      "")    ldd=`/usr/bin/type ldd 2>/dev/null | /opt/pkg/bin/nawk '{ print $NF }'` ;;  *)  ldd= ;;                      esac;                               bins=`/opt/pkg/bin/nawk '/(^|\/)(bin|sbin|libexec)\// { print "/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.destdir/opt/pkg/" $0 } END { exit 0 }' /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.PLIST_nokeywords`;  case ELF"" in                     ELF)                                libs=`/opt/pkg/bin/nawk '/\/lib.*\.so(\.[0-9]+)*$/ { print "/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.destdir/opt/pkg/" $0 } END { exit 0 }' /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.PLIST_nokeywords`;  if test -n "$bins" -o -n "$libs"; then       requires=`(/usr/bin/env  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.destdir/opt/pkg/lib $ldd $bins $libs 2>/dev/null || true) | /opt/pkg/bin/nawk '$2 == "=>" && $3 ~ "/" { print $3 }' | /opt/pkg/bin/nbsed -e 's,/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.destdir,,' | /usr/bin/sort -u`;  fi;                            linklibs=`/opt/pkg/bin/nawk '/.*\.so(\.[0-9]+)*$/ { print "/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.destdir/opt/pkg/" $0 }' /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.PLIST_nokeywords`;  for i in $linklibs; do                   if test -r $i -a ! -x $i -a ! -h $i; then   test yes"" = "no" ||  echo "$i: installed without execute permission; fixing (should use [BSD_]INSTALL_LIB)";  /usr/bin/chmod +x $i;            fi;                         done;                           ;;                          Mach-O)                                 libs=`/opt/pkg/bin/nawk '/\/lib.*\.dylib/ { print "/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.destdir/opt/pkg/" $0 } END { exit 0 }' /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.PLIST_nokeywords`;  if test "$bins" != "" -o "$libs" != ""; then  requires=`($ldd $bins $libs 2>/dev/null || true) | /opt/pkg/bin/nawk '/compatibility version/ { print $1 }' | /usr/bin/sort -u`;  fi;                           ;;                          esac;                               requires=`{ for i in $requires $requires; do echo $i; done;  /opt/pkg/bin/nawk '{ print "/opt/pkg/" $0 }' /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.PLIST_nokeywords; } |  /usr/bin/sort | uniq -c | awk '$1 == 2 {print $2}'`;  for i in "" $libs; do                      test "$i" != "" || continue;            echo "PROVIDES=${i}";               done | /opt/pkg/bin/nbsed -e 's,^PROVIDES=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.destdir,PROVIDES=,'         >> /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp;                     for req in "" $requires; do                     test "$req" != "" || continue;          echo "REQUIRES=$req" >> /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp;        done
set -e;                              rm -f /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO;                      sort /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp > /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO;                 rm -f /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO.tmp
set -e;/usr/bin/mkdir -p /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb
set -e;  /usr/bin/cat /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.PLIST |                      /opt/pkg/bin/nawk 'BEGIN { base = "/opt/pkg/" }                 /^@cwd/ { base = $2 "/" }               /^@/ { next }                       { print base $0 }' |                    /usr/bin/sort -u |                          /opt/pkg/bin/nbsed -e "s,^/,/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.destdir/," -e "s/'/'\\\\''/g" -e "s/.*/'&'/" |  /usr/bin/xargs -n 256 /usr/bin/ls -ld 2>/dev/null |               /opt/pkg/bin/nawk 'BEGIN { s = 0 } { s += $5 } END { print s }'         > /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+SIZE_PKG
set -e;/usr/bin/mkdir -p /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb
set -e;                              {                               /usr/bin/cat /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+SIZE_PKG &&               /opt/pkg/bin/nawk '$1 == "full" { print $3; }' < /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.rdepends | /usr/bin/sort -u |            /usr/bin/xargs -n 256 /opt/pkg/sbin/pkg_info -K /var/opt/pkg/db/pkg -qs;            } |                                 /opt/pkg/bin/nawk 'BEGIN { s = 0 } /^[0-9]+$/ { s += $1 } END { print s }'  > /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+SIZE_ALL
set -e; /usr/bin/mkdir -p /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/packages/All
=> Creating binary package /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/packages/All/tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2.tgz
set -e; tmpname=/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/packages/All/tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2.tmp.tgz;   if /opt/pkg/sbin/pkg_create -K /var/opt/pkg/db/pkg -l -U -B /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_INFO -b /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+BUILD_VERSION -c /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+COMMENT  -d /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+DESC -f /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.PLIST_deps  -S /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+SIZE_ALL -s /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+SIZE_PKG         -C teTeX-texmf\<=3.0nb13\ tex-cm\<2009\ tex-latex-fonts\<2009\ tex-misc\<2009   -i /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+INSTALL     -k /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.pkgdb/+DEINSTALL -F gzip -I /opt/pkg -p /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.destdir/opt/pkg -u root -g root "$tmpname"; then      /usr/bin/mv -f "$tmpname" /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/packages/All/tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2.tgz;            else                                exitcode=$?; /usr/bin/rm -f "$tmpname"; exit $exitcode;     fi
pkg_create: cannot create archive: Failed to open '/home/richard/src/pkgsrc/packages/All/tex-amsfonts-3.0nb2.tmp.tgz'
*** Error code 2

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts
set -e;                  /usr/bin/rm -f /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.warning/*.tmp;                     test -d /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.warning || exit 0;                cd /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.warning;                       for file in ./*; do                         test "$file" != "./*" || exit 0;            break;                          done;                               /usr/bin/cat ./* | /opt/pkg/bin/nbsed -e "s|^|WARNING: |" 1>&2;                     /usr/bin/mv -f ./* /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.warning-done
set -e;                  /usr/bin/rm -f /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.error/*.tmp;                   test -d /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.error || exit 0;              cd /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.error;                         for file in ./*; do                         test "$file" != "./*" || exit 0;            break;                          done;                               /usr/bin/cat * | /opt/pkg/bin/nbsed -e "s|^|ERROR: |" 1>&2;                     if /opt/pkg/bin/nawk 'END { exit (NR > 0) ? 0 : 1; }' ./*; then                 /usr/bin/mv -f ./* /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts/work.devzone/.error-done;            exit 1;                             fi
*** Error code 1

Stop.
bmake: stopped in /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/fonts/tex-amsfonts

Is there something else that needs to be set for a non root user?

[jperkin]

The binary packages are created as the normal user, did you perhaps
change the permissions on /home/richard/src/pkgsrc/packages/All during
testing so that your 'richard' user can no longer write to that
directory or all the files in it?

Jonathan Perkin www.perkin.org.uk
github.com/jperkin twitter.com/jperkin

[ghost]

Indeed these where owned by root... probably when I updated and put everything back to default I may have been in pfexec bash.
changed owner back to me and corrected some permissions, and put back in the '/usr/bin/bash -c ' part and it seems to work, thanks.