During a build/install cycle of the current HEAD whilst attempting to identify the cause of a bug in git version 1.8.0.3 whilst doing:
GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git clone -v https://git01.codeplex.com/typescript
* GnuTLS recv error (-9): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received. * Closing connection #0 error: RPC failed; result=56, HTTP code = 200
I hit a local install failure whilst installing to the prefix /usr/local/ where the $(INSTALL) command reported a Permission Denied error.
This was due to the $(INSTALL) modes being 755/644 but the file-system modes being 775/664. In this case ownership and permissions are:
$ ls -ald /usr/local drwxrwxr-x 13 root adm 4096 Sep 26 04:16 /usr/local
Users belonging to the 'adm' group have permission to install local packages.
The fix I've implemented is to convert the hard-coded 755/644 modes to variables which can be over-ridden on the make command-line if necessary.