# chmod: changing permissions of `blib/arch/auto/Git': Operation not permitted

1 messages from 2017-04-03 to 2017-04-03. Participants: Jeffrey Walton.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/45594

## Jeffrey Walton, 2017-04-03 04:12

Subject: chmod: changing permissions of `blib/arch/auto/Git': Operation not permitted
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8kPWuB0zYp7g_PO7x-Kn5RpzKpvbGvyV+2mt_buaJb3zQ@mail.gmail.com>
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This is kind of unusual. I'm seeing it under Debian 7 on a ci20 mipsel
dev-board when building/installing Git 2.12.2:

...
317 translated messages.
    GEN gitk-wish
307 translated messages.
    SUBDIR perl
chmod: changing permissions of `blib/lib': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `blib/arch': Operation not
permittedmake[2]: *** [blib/lib/.exists] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

make[2]: *** [blib/arch/.exists] Error 1
chmod: changing permissions of `blib/arch/auto/Git': Operation not permitted
make[2]: *** [blib/arch/auto/Git/.exists] Error 1
chmod: changing permissions of `blib/lib/auto/Git': Operation not permitted
make[2]: *** [blib/lib/auto/Git/.exists] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
    SUBDIR git-gui
    SUBDIR gitk-git
...


When I check permissions:

$ ls -Al git-2.12.2/perl/blib/bin/
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr  3 05:06 .exists

It appears one of the Git processes is creating the directory
structure git-2.12.2/perl/... It also appears to be doing it under
sudo/root since I build under my account.

Jeff

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