FakeRoot is a tool that offers applications the illusion of root privileges. This is most often used for building packages with correct permissions. FakeRoot-P is a performance-oriented re-design of FakeRoot, scalable on multi-core architectures. Please see PDF for more information.
Like FakeRoot, FakeRoot-P can be built using either System V or TCP as a transport mechanism between clients and server. However, the scalable design of FakeRoot-P is only implemented with the System V method of communication. When built with the TCP option, FakeRoot-P retains the lack of scalability of the original FakeRoot code.
SysV IPC is the default; to build for TCP, run configure with
--with-ipc=tcp (case-sensitive).
To build, run:
cd src/
./configure
make
make install
FreeBSD: to compile --with-ipc=tcp and gcc, make sure the -pthread flag
is used.
Cases for which the SYSV IPC version fails or causes problems but for which fakeroot-tcp has been observed to work well include the items listed below.
- Multithreaded applications (using pthread)
- Running under realtime-preempt kernel
Portability: On OS X, only binaries that do NOT rely on Mach-based [e]uid/[e]gid/mode APIs will correctly use fakeroot altered ownership/permissions. See README_MACOSX.txt for further information.