OpenBSD's port building infrastructure is able to build in a privilege
separated mode. It uses a privilege drop model. Regression tests fail in
this mode as xz/lzma is unable to set file group and errors out with:
xz: tmp.xz: Cannot set the file group: Operation not permitted
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:307: zstd-playTests] Error 2
Actually it is not a xz/lzma error but a warning causing zstd's
regression test to fail. Proposed fix is to have xz/lzma not set the
exit status to 2 even if a condition worth a warning was detected (-Q
flag).
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/1124 fixes an issue with GNU/Hurd
being unable to write to /dev/zero. Implemented fix is writing to
/dev/random instead.
On OpenBSD a regular user is unable to write to /dev/random because of
permissions set on this device. Result is failing a regression test.
Proposed solution should work for all platforms.
OpenBSD uses md5 instead of md5sum, and has no device called full.
With this patch, make check runs until #1088. With the assumption made
in the issue make check runs succesfully.
Björn Ketelaars