Poudriere outputs these warnings on every build now: [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:493: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:491: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:493: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:491: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:493: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:491: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:493: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-server-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-server-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:491: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-server-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:493: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-server-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:491: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:491: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:493: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:491: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-server-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-server-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:491: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:33] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" --- SNIP ---
I dont see anything weird building security/ossec-hids-agent-config on my end? cat /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/144amd64-dev-make.conf CPUTYPE?=znver4 Nothing else "non standard/default" on my end in terms of settings (no, ccache/sccache) ...and using my overlay tree https://github.com/diizzyy/ports-overlay
(In reply to Daniel Engberg from comment #1) I upgraded the poudriere build server to 14.4-RELEASE on March 10th and the earliest I can find the errors is on the 14th. I looked at the commit history for ports and nothing on the 14th that jumps out as causing this.
Just tried running poudriere bulk from the command line and it doesn't trigger the warnings. I assume it's something to do with the environment when running from cron then
It's not coming from poudriere-bulk, it's coming from when I run poudriere distclean in my buildscript. $ sudo poudriere distclean -p 144amd64_default -a -y [00:00:01] Ports supports: FLAVORS SUBPACKAGES SELECTED_OPTIONS [00:00:01] Loading MOVED for /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default [00:00:01] Gathering all expected distfiles for ports tree '144amd64_default' [00:00:28] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:28] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:493: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:28] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:28] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-agent-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:493: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:28] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:489: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" [00:00:28] Warning: (security/ossec-hids-local-config): make: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/144amd64_default/Mk/bsd.options.mk:491: warning: Invalid character " " in variable name "/usr/bin/id -un" -- SNIP --
The problem appears to stem from this piece of code on lines 96 to 98 of security/ossec-hids-local-config/Makefile: .if empty(USER) USER=$$(${ID} -un) .endif If you were running the build from a normal login session, USER would be set, but I presume Poudriere doesn't do so. The USER variable is then used a bit further down in the definition of the SUB_PLIST variable on line 110: SUB_LIST+= PORTNAME=${PORTNAME} \ OSSEC_TYPE=${OSSEC_TYPE} \ OSSEC_HOME=${OSSEC_HOME} \ VERSION=${PORTVERSION} \ USER=${USER} \ OSSEC_USER=${OSSEC_USER} \ OSSEC_GROUP=${OSSEC_GROUP} \ OSSEC_RC=${OSSEC_RC} \ FW_DROP=${FW_DROP} The lines it issues a warning on in bsd.options.mk are part of a loop that gets run once for each option for the port (starts on line 477). The relevant bit here is that the loop adds SUB_LIST entries for all options (lines 489 to 495): . if ! ${SUB_LIST:M${opt}=*} . if ${PORT_OPTIONS:M${opt}} SUB_LIST:= ${SUB_LIST} ${opt}="" NO_${opt}="@comment " . else SUB_LIST:= ${SUB_LIST} ${opt}="@comment " NO_${opt}="" . endif . endif The usage of := here interacts badly with the way USER was defined. It runs variable expansion on the contents of SUB_LIST, which (because make variable expansion is lazy by default) then recursively runs the expansion on USER, (if I understand this correctly) replacing the "USER=${USER}" bit of the definition of SUB_LIST with "USER=$(/usr/bin/id -un)". This is then assigned back to the SUB_LIST variable. The next time the value of SUB_LIST is used, in a way that causes expansion, e.g. the next time we go around this loop, it then tries to expand "USER=$(/usr/bin/id -un)". Since $() is also a possible make variable expansion syntax, it ends up trying to expand a variable named "/usr/bin/id -un". A similar problem seems to have been fixed with other variables by changing $$(…) to `…` in security/ossec-hids* last summer: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=6764a97f12fadadd0d4803aa205c47161ae50ae4 My guess is that the problem with USER was missed back then because it's usually set from the environment.
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=082e36892d5c1f00fb726a360d7484090e57b343 commit 082e36892d5c1f00fb726a360d7484090e57b343 Author: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2026-04-08 11:36:53 +0000 Commit: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2026-04-08 11:36:53 +0000 security/ossec-hids-local-config: Unbreak PR: 294020 MFH: 2026Q2 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56303 security/ossec-hids-local-config/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
A commit in branch 2026Q2 references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=a0718fd0e19f71454f365d682e42aa05944be72a commit a0718fd0e19f71454f365d682e42aa05944be72a Author: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2026-04-08 11:36:53 +0000 Commit: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2026-04-08 11:37:17 +0000 security/ossec-hids-local-config: Unbreak PR: 294020 MFH: 2026Q2 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56303 (cherry picked from commit 082e36892d5c1f00fb726a360d7484090e57b343) security/ossec-hids-local-config/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)