severity 477970 serious thanks On 27/04/08 at 19:17 -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > severity 477970 important > thanks > > This appears to be some unrelated install error having nothing to do > with gcc-4.3.
I improved my template to clarify that bugs are not necessarly gcc-4.3-specific. But even if it's not gcc-4.3-related, it's still an FTBFS, and it's still RC. > I can't reproduce this under a normal pbuilder > environment, and it hasn't been reproduced on the buildds. The part that is at fault is in Makefile: install :: @for dir in \ $(INSTALLPRIVLIB) \ $(INSTALLARCHLIB) \ $(INSTALLBIN) \ $(INSTALLSCRIPT) \ $(INSTALLMAN1DIR) \ $(INSTALLMAN3DIR) ; \ do \ $(MKPATH) "$$dir"; \ if test -d "$$dir" && test -w "$$dir" ; then : ; else \ echo ; \ echo "ERROR: installation directory \"$$dir\"" ; \ echo " is not writable, not installing gimp-perl" ; \ echo ; \ exit ; \ fi ; \ done ; \ $(MAKE) really-install install-plugins The problem is that you are creating and checking INSTALLPRIVLIB, not DESTINSTALLPRIVLIB. So you are directly trying to create /usr/share/perl/5.8, not $(insert build dir here)/...../usr/share/perl/5.8. This obviously breaks if the build is not done as root. I'm surprised that this worked on the buildd, but it was a long time ago. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]