Thanks for the reply!
I have changed UID/GID of tinyos installation directory (and
recursively to all file/subdirectories), and now the compilation
process finish successfully!

2012/6/6 Eric Decker <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Armando Contestabile 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>> This is my first post in this channel.
>> For academical purposes I installed the TinyOS environment on a custom 
>> installation of Xubuntu 12.04, with packet tinyos-2.1.1
>> Now I tried to compile the first simple sample :-) program "Blink". I 
>> received several permission errors, but I seen that the UID and GID on the 
>> installation folder of TinyOS (in the default place: /opt/tinyos-2.1.1) are 
>> set both as 1001. In my machine there aren't UID and/or GID with 1001 number 
>> assigned.
>> So, I have a question. It's safe to set recursively UID and GID on this 
>> directory to my username?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> For some reason the main tinyos-2.1.1 release code installs into 
> /opt/tinyos-2.1.1, I assume with the uid/gid of 1001,1001.
>
> It should actually be a debian source package (not sure how Redhat does 
> source packages, it has been quite a while since I've had a Redhat/Fedora 
> system) which would install in a more reasonable place with more reasonable 
> permissions.
>
> Bottom line, yes it is safe to change the uid/gid of the source files.   
> There is nothing in the build process that requires anything special from the 
> permissions.
>
> eric
>
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Armando
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