install-sh - permission denied

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Tue Oct 20 19:17:50 UTC 2009


--On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 13:59:54 -0500 Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> 
wrote:

>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com>
> wrote:
>> --On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 13:35:57 -0500 Scott Lambert
>> <lambert at lambertfam.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on a new port, and I'm getting this error during make
>>>> install:
>>>>
>>>> test -z "/usr/local/bin" || .././install-sh -c -d "/usr/local/bin"
>>>> .././install-sh: Permission denied
>>>
>>> Is the execute bit set on ../install.sh?
>>>
>>
>> Bingo!  No, it's not.  Now the question is - why isn't it?  What controls
>> the perms on that?
>>
>> I just made clean and the made extract.  The file is set to rw-r--r-- root
>> wheel.
>>
> Either it is not set in the tar file or your umask is blocking the
> setting of the execute bit.
>

Thanks, Scot.  It's not set in the tarfile.  Appreciate the help.

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