share/perl6/vendor/short creation as root - when installed via brew

[rcmlz]

Bug Description

• installing rakudo-star on Mac Montery via brew.sh (brew install rakudo-star) as admin user 'privuser'
• run a raku script as unprevilegded user
• get error: failed to create directory '/usr/local/Cellar/rakudo-star/2023.08/share/perl6/vendor/short' with mode '0o777': Failed to mkdir: Permission denied

Reproduction path

git clone https://github.com/rcmlz/perlweeklychallenge-club
cd perlweeklychallenge-club
git checkout origin/raku-benchmark-scaleability
raku test/benchmark-scalabiity.raku DEMO

However, running as privileged user (sudoers) works

sudo raku test/benchmark-scalabiity.raku DEMO

and inspection of the folders show

ls -aslh /usr/local/Cellar/rakudo-star/2023.08/share/perl6/vendor/ 
total 8
0 drwxr-xr-x  4 privuser admin   128B  5 Sep 11:21 .
0 drwxr-xr-x  7 privuser admin   224B 22 Aug 01:57 ..
0 drwxr-xr-x  2 root    admin    64B  5 Sep 11:21 short
8 -rw-r--r--  1 privuser  admin     1B 22 Aug 01:57 version

that running as sudo user created a folder 'short'.

Conclusion

Apparently the folder /usr/local/Cellar/rakudo-star/2023.08/share/perl6/vendor/short is not created during setup but only on first run - which requires sudo rights. I assume this is not intended behaviour.

[AntonOks]

Thanks for your bug report.

I will not be able to help any soon. I have now Mac available... and also in the next couple of days, I've only a ARM based Windows10 box, so a "win32" emulation... and there is no (recent) win32 Raku version, and so also no win32 Star....

Anyhow, as Star nowadays is just "the similar Rakudo version + some additional modules", the problem must be somewhere else.

From a quick search, I found:#

• https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/5c5ffcd952c35bb3dd1477ec5e21667961bdbbbe/src/core.c/CompUnit/Repository/Installation.pm6#L62 (so, it should be created here...)
• ‘/opt/rakudo-pkg/share/perl6/vendor/short’: Permission denied nxadm/rakudo-pkg#78
• Issues with zef after migration to CloudSmith nxadm/rakudo-pkg#81

From what I would have understood from those discussions:

• Remove your local Star (Rakudo?) installation.
• Make sure also the related dir's in your HOME and wherever you modules are stored (RAKULIB?) are also deleted.
• Re-install RAKUDO (if there is a "brew rakudo" package?! ) or Star...

[AntonOks]

@rcmlz - Hi. Any opinion on the feedback above? Any chance to install Star new / from zero?

[rcmlz]

Hello @AntonOks

I encountered this error on a fresh Radudo-Star installation on a freshly installed Mac.

For me it was not a problem to run Raku once with sudo/root to fix this.

However, I thought that error might be an issue in general. Perhaps I am wrong. Just wanted to let you know about that error.

[AntonOks]

Hmm, strange.
To rule out Star, any change to remove your Star installation completely and install the same "bare bone" Rakudo installation?

Else, lacking of any better idea right now, I may have to "missuse" the GitHub osx runners for that kind of test :|

[rcmlz]

I get the same error when running on github runners, so nothing to do with Star ... sorry for the confusion

https://github.com/rcmlz/perlweeklychallenge-club/blob/raku-benchmark-scaleability/.github/workflows/manual_raku_benchmark.yml

Failed to create directory '/usr/lib/perl6/site/short' with mode '0o777': Failed to mkdir: Permission denied
in any statement_control at /usr/lib/perl6/lib/Perl6/Grammar.moarvm line 1

[AntonOks]

as it's not a Star issue AND there is an open issue in Rakudo, I'm hereby closing this one