Need help with Portfile

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday December 09 2014 23:11:44 Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:

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

Is that a build dependency or a part of the port for which you're writing the Portfile? If the former, you'd have to write a port for the gem.
If the latter, the installation is not at its place in the build phase, I think.

> 
> build {
>    system "${prefix}/bin/gem-1.8 install CFPropertyList"
> }
> 
> 
> This fails, because without root privileges, the gem cannot be installed.

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

#> sudo port install <portname> ;)

R.