Re: reproducible builds: what is make[5]: warning: /lib/geom: Permission denied

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:16:00 UTC
On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 at 11:11, Minsoo Choo <minsoochoo0122@proton.me> wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 20th, 2026 at 9:44 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> > during buildworld (sorry only make -s) as user I see:
> >
> > make[5]: warning: /lib/geom: Permission denied
> >
> > Anyone wants to investigate?
> >
> Ed says this has been happening for a month. I suspect that make forgets append /usr/obj on build. (could be env issue)

Many months, not one month. In fact I see a report on -current from
bz@ from 2021 about this same sort of issue. In that thread there's a
message from Warner that https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30990 might be a
fix -- I see it's still not committed.