Need help with Portfile

[Behrang Saeedzadeh]

Hi,

As part of a Portfile I am writing, I need to install a Ruby gem, so I have
added this build block:

build {
   system "${prefix}/bin/gem-1.8 install CFPropertyList"
}


This fails, because without root privileges, the gem cannot be installed.
However if I change the build block to use sudo:

build {
   system "sudo ${prefix}/bin/gem-1.8 install CFPropertyList"
}

It also fails, but this time with this error message:

:info:build sh: /usr/bin/sudo: Operation not permitted


What's the proper way of invoking such commands that need root level
permissions?


Best regards,
Behrang
http://www.behrang.org
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