Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [209.114.166.2]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA43816 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:10:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20153; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:10:21 -0400 (EDT) To: Margarita Barvinok cc: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rodrigo_Ver=F3n_De_Astrada_W.?=" , pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Subject: Re: problems with the instalation In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Margarita Barvinok message dated "Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:23:48 -0400" Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:10:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20150.956070620@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Archive-Number: 200004/122 Margarita Barvinok writes: > I believe you should install perl as root, or at least you should have > permission to write to directories you install perl into. I don't think that's his problem, because he's not even getting through the first stage of the build: >> ------------ >> Configuring Pg >> Remember to actually read the README file ! >> OS: linux >> Checking if your kit is complete... >> Looks good >> Writing Makefile for Pg >> Unable to open MakeMaker.tmp: Permission denied at (eval 1) line 625. >> ------------ It looks like he doesn't have write permission on the directory containing the source files (src/interfaces/perl5), which would seem pretty odd if he is running as the postgres user. However I wonder what is really going on here, because the first three lines quoted above do not come out of perl when I run "perl Makefile.PL". I think there is another layer of software involved here that may be messing things up... regards, tom lane