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The first step when building is to set up a build environment. The SmartOS build requires building on SmartOS. As of the base-64-lts 21.4.0 build image, the SmartOS Platform Image must be 20211007 or newer. This can be done in VMware, on an existing SmartOS machine, or other virtualization. You must build inside of a non-global zone.
While you can build as the root user, we recommend that you create a user to do your day to day work as. If you do create that user there are two things that you should do:.
Make sure that the user has the 'Primary Administrator' privilege. There are occasional parts of the build that require administrator privileges and these will use pfexec to do so. To add a user to the primary administrator role, as the root user in the zone, you should run:
Make sure that the user's shell is set to /bin/bash. There have occasionally been build issues when using different shells. Ultimately, those are bugs. If you do use another shell and encounter issues, please tell us.