install-sh - permission denied

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:31:43 -0500 Matthew Seaman 
<m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl 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
>>
>> Can anyone tell me why I'm getting this?
>>
>> My system is 7.2 STABLE
>> 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #13: Thu Sep 24 09:02:53 CDT 2009
>>
>> Ports are csuped daily.
>>
>
> At a guess, it's because you don't have sufficient permissions to run
> .././install-sh with the arguments shown.  Now, one fairly obvious reason
> why this wouldn't work is that .././install-sh isn't marked executable for
> your UID.  Judging by the file name, this is a shell script, so also check
> that your UID has sufficient permissions to run the shell on the #! line
> of the script too.
>
> I can't really tell just by looking at the command names, but I'm guessing
> that this command creates /usr/local/bin as a directory if it doesn't already
> exist.  Basically an obscurantist and over-engineered way of running a simple:
>
>    # mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
>
> This is entirely unnecessary when dealing with the ports.  You may take it
> as read that the basic layout of directories under /usr/local will have been
> created for you by using mtree(8) and /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist
>

The problem is, I'm doing this as root.  :-(

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