Re: cannot create directory `.am15097': Permission denied

[Bruce Korb]

It was the macros going into the *source* directory in order to
build its products.  Bad.  But anyway, the cause was a minor
misordering of build functions.  Thank you.  :)

On Saturday 09 July 2005 02:26 pm, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am sure that this is some config issue, but Google gives no help
> on this one.  "make" and "make check" are all happy, but when I
> get to "make distcheck" it dies in the doc directory doing strange
> things that I cannot even speculate about.
> 
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/doc'
> restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
> am__cwd=`pwd` && cd ../../doc && \
> rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
> for f in autogen.info autogen.info-[0-9] autogen.info-[0-9][0-9] \
>    autogen.i[0-9] autogen.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
>   if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
> done; \
> cd "$am__cwd"; \
> if /bin/sh /home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/config/missing \
>    --run makeinfo-I../../autoopts -I../autoopts -I ../../doc \
>  -o autogen.info autogen.texi; \
> then \
>   rc=0; \
>   cd ../../doc; \
> else \
>   rc=$?; \
>   cd ../../doc && \
>   $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./autogen.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
> fi; \
> rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
> mkdir: cannot create directory `.am15097': Permission denied
> autogen.info: Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [autogen.info] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/doc'
> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> 
> 
> So, it looks like it was trying to create a backup directory named,
> ".am15097" but it could not.  However:
> 
> $ ls -dog /home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/doc
> drwxr-xr-x  2 845 Jul  9 14:13 /home/bkorb/ag/ag/autogen-5.7.1/_build/doc
> 
> it looks like it has permission to me.  What's going on?  :)
> 
> Thank you.  Regards, Bruce
>