Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:51:13 -0800 (PST) From: Dennis Newbold To: Sebastien Barre cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: ... is not writable by you In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990225124802.02724850@mail.club-internet.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Sebastien, Not only do you have to have write access to /usr/local/bin, you also need write access to /usr/local, and quite possibly to /usr as well. The ls output you provide does not show the access bits for these two directories. Check this out, and if necessary, do the proper chmod on them. Good luck. Hope this helps. On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Sebastien Barre wrote: > I'm sorry to ask, as I'm sure that this has been discussed in the archive, > but the search feature is down :( > http://www.cygnus.com/htdig/searchcygwin.html > > I'm trying to install Perl 5.005_2 (compilation and test suceeded), and it > fails on : > > ./perl installperl > /usr/local/bin is not writable by you > make: *** [install.perl] Error 2 > > But I have the right to do so I guess : > > administrateur [6] /usr/local$ ll > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 administ Aucun 0 Feb 24 01:50 bin/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 administ Aucun 0 Feb 23 09:17 include/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 administ Aucun 0 Feb 23 09:17 info/ > drwxr-xr-x 3 administ Aucun 0 Feb 16 11:34 lib/ > drwxr-xr-x 4 administ Aucun 0 Feb 16 11:34 man/ > drwxr-xr-x 5 administ Aucun 0 Feb 23 09:17 share/ > > Could someone be kind enough to forward me to the corresponding article ? > > Thanks a lot, and sorry for the "spam". > > ______________________________________________________________ > Sebastien Barre http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/ > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com