CFPreferences warnings

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Oct 16 09:12:27 PDT 2014


On 2014-10-16 17:30, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> I'm working on a new version of MythTV and building in a non-standard
> prefix (/opt/dvr).  I'm getting hundreds of warning messages like the
> following:
> 
>> 2014-10-16 10:43:03.178 osacompile[23932:90b] CFPreferences: user home
>> directory at file://localhost/opt/local/var/macports/home/ is
>> unavailable. User domains will be volatile.
> 
> 
>> 2014-10-16 10:43:02.413 qmake[23922:903] CFPreferences: user home
>> directory at file://localhost/opt/local/var/macports/home/ is
>> unavailable. User domains will be volatile.

The path probably comes from the home directory of the macports user
that is used for privilege separation in several phases of the build
process of a port.

$ dscl . -read /Users/macports NFSHomeDirectory
NFSHomeDirectory: /opt/local/var/macports/home

You macports user was added by a previous installation in the default
prefix. I suppose these messages are harmless, but you could change it
to the home directory in the prefix you are using.

Rainer


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