Hi Paul, Paul Eggert <[email protected]> skribis:
> On 06/11/2012 05:21 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> /nix/store/0h02f2l6qbah1wil9bpan9c2flv99xv9-git-export/gnulib-tool: line >> 4700: ./build-aux/announce-gen.tmp: Permission denied > > That's the first diagnostic so that's what I'd worry about. > The pattern in gnulib-tool here is: > > cp "$lookedup_file" ./build-aux/announce-gen.tmp > sed -e "..." < "$lookedup_file" > ./build-aux/announce-gen.tmp > > and the latter command prompts the shell to say > "Permission denied". One reason this might occur > is that the gnulib source code is read-only, i.e., > the permissions on ...gnulib/build-aux/announce-gen > (the "$lookedup_file") are r-xr-xr-x. Is this possible > in your environment? Yes, according to <http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2693322/contents/1> (the build tree of a failed build), ‘$top_srcdir/gnulib/build-aux’ was indeed r-xr-xr-x. I’m not sure why that would be the case, nor why it would not /systematically/ be a problem. (Details on the bootstrap phase available at <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hydra-recipes.git/tree/coreutils/release.nix#n65>.) Thanks, Ludo’.
