On 2024/09/10 18:30, Neel chakraborty wrote:
> I have checked out a copy of the ports tree from CVS, and I am trying to install rust. 
> I am running OpenBSD 7.5 and not -current. 

Try something simple and quick first. math/moo is a good one.

> However, I face the following error on running make install 
> pkg_add: pkg_add must be run as root
> 
> Do I then run doas make install? Or is it a bug?

Neither. Setup sudo or doas so that your user can run things as root
and pass environment variables through, and set the SUDO variable in
/etc/mk.conf.

e.g.

for sudo, have an entry like "yourusername ALL = SETENV: ALL"
and set "SUDO=sudo -E"

for doas, have an entry like "permit keepenv persist yourusername"
and set "SUDO=doas"