Re: distcheck does 'chmod a-w' - leads to mkdir "permission denied"

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hi Paul,

Paul Jakma <address@hidden> writes:

> My make distcheck is broken and I can't figure out how to fix it or
> where the problem lies. It seems to be a similar issue to:
>
> http://gnu-automake.7480.n7.nabble.com/cannot-create-directory-am15097-Permission-denied-td209.html
>
> Mine does:
>
> ...
> chmod -R a-w quagga-1.2.0
> chmod u+w quagga-1.2.0
> mkdir quagga-1.2.0/_build quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub quagga-1.2.0/_inst
> chmod a-w quagga-1.2.0
> test -d quagga-1.2.0/_build || exit 0; \
> ...
>
> before going into quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub to do an out of source-tree
> build in _build/sub on the sources in ../.. or quagga-1.2.0. Except
> then at some stage later it fails trying to do a mkdir in
> ../../../doc/ (i.e. quagga-1.2.0/doc):
>
> Making all in doc
> make[3]: Entering directory
> '/home/paul/code/quagga/quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub/doc'
> make  all-am
> make[4]: Entering directory
> '/home/paul/code/quagga/quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub/doc'
>   MAKEINFO ../../../doc/quagga.info
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘.am18743’: Permission denied
> could not open ../../../doc/quagga.texi: No such file or directory
>
> With V=99:
>
> Making all in doc
> make[3]: Entering directory
> '/home/paul/code/quagga/quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub/doc'
> make  all-am
> make[4]: Entering directory
> '/home/paul/code/quagga/quagga-1.2.0/_build/sub/doc'
> restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
> am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../../doc && \
> rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
> if (makeinfo --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
>   for f in ../../../doc/quagga.info ../../../doc/quagga.info-[0-9]
> ../../../doc/quagga.info-[0-9][0-9] ../../../doc/quagga.i[0-9]
> ../../../doc/quagga.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
>     if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
>   done; \
> else :; fi && \
> cd "$am__cwd"; \
> if makeinfo   -I ../../../doc \
>  -o ../../../doc/quagga.info ../../../doc/quagga.texi; \
> then \
>   rc=0; \
>   CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../../doc; \
> else \
>   rc=$?; \
>   CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd ../../../doc && \
>   $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./../../../doc/quagga.info" | sed
> 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
> fi; \
> rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘.am1976’: Permission denied
> could not open ../../../doc/quagga.texi: No such file or directory
> /bin/sh: line 16: cd: ../../../doc: No such file or directory
> Makefile:493: recipe for target '../../../doc/quagga.info' failed
>
> I'm a bit mystified as to where to start looking. It don't see
> anything obvious in the doc/Makefile.am. The only thing is we have a
> 'defines.texi' that is built by automake from defines.texi.in and
> declared as:
>
>  BUILT_SOURCES = defines.texi
>

Can you provide a minimal example that allow others to reproduce the
problem?

Thanks.

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Mathieu Lirzin
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