# Error compiling Git in current master branch

3 messages from 2018-03-08 to 2018-03-08. Participants: Gaston Gonzalez, SZEDER Gábor.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/48008

## Gaston Gonzalez, 2018-03-08 15:53

Subject: Error compiling Git in current master branch
Message-ID: <ce6250a8-c1e2-433d-7d5f-399115aa9f55@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ce6250a8-c1e2-433d-7d5f-399115aa9f55%40gmail.com

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Hi,

Just to let you know, I get the following error compiling Git in master
branch:

$ make prefix=/usr NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease all doc info
...
     GEN git-remote-testgit
     GEN perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm
Can't write-open perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm: Permission denied at 
/usr/bin/pod2man line 70.
Makefile:2317: fallo en las instrucciones para el objetivo 
'perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm'
make: *** [perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm] Error 13

This didn't happen in v2.16.2. Doing a git-bisect I've got the following
culprit:

$ git bisect start HEAD v2.16.2 --
2530afd3519a34b66e72cc29e7751d650cedc6dd is the first bad commit

make clean fails too:

rm -f -r perl/build/
rm: no se puede borrar 'perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm': Permiso denegado
Makefile:2734: fallo en las instrucciones para el objetivo 'clean'
make: *** [clean] Error 1

Regards,

Gaston

```

## SZEDER Gábor, 2018-03-08 16:17

Subject: Re: Error compiling Git in current master branch
Message-ID: <20180308161742.26596-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20180308161742.26596-1-szeder.dev%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <ce6250a8-c1e2-433d-7d5f-399115aa9f55@gmail.com>

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> Just to let you know, I get the following error compiling Git in master
> branch:
> 
> $ make prefix=/usr NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease all doc info
> ...
>      GEN git-remote-testgit
>      GEN perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm
> Can't write-open perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm: Permission denied at 
> /usr/bin/pod2man line 70.
> Makefile:2317: fallo en las instrucciones para el objetivo 
> 'perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm'
> make: *** [perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm] Error 13
> 
> This didn't happen in v2.16.2. Doing a git-bisect I've got the following
> culprit:
> 
> $ git bisect start HEAD v2.16.2 --
> 2530afd3519a34b66e72cc29e7751d650cedc6dd is the first bad commit

That's not the culprit, that's the fix :)

> make clean fails too:
> 
> rm -f -r perl/build/
> rm: no se puede borrar 'perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm': Permiso denegado
> Makefile:2734: fallo en las instrucciones para el objetivo 'clean'
> make: *** [clean] Error 1

Have a look at the permissions of 'perl/build' and its contents, they
are likely owned by root for reasons described in 2530afd's log
message.


```

## Gaston Gonzalez, 2018-03-08 16:26

Subject: Re: Error compiling Git in current master branch
Message-ID: <0b394844-f33f-9069-6feb-08d552866f47@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/0b394844-f33f-9069-6feb-08d552866f47%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20180308161742.26596-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>

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On 08/03/18 13:17, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
>> Just to let you know, I get the following error compiling Git in master
>> branch:
>>
>> $ make prefix=/usr NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease all doc info
>> ...
>>       GEN git-remote-testgit
>>       GEN perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm
>> Can't write-open perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm: Permission denied at
>> /usr/bin/pod2man line 70.
>> Makefile:2317: fallo en las instrucciones para el objetivo
>> 'perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm'
>> make: *** [perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm] Error 13
>>
>> This didn't happen in v2.16.2. Doing a git-bisect I've got the following
>> culprit:
>>
>> $ git bisect start HEAD v2.16.2 --
>> 2530afd3519a34b66e72cc29e7751d650cedc6dd is the first bad commit
> That's not the culprit, that's the fix :)
>
>> make clean fails too:
>>
>> rm -f -r perl/build/
>> rm: no se puede borrar 'perl/build/man/man3/Git.3pm': Permiso denegado
>> Makefile:2734: fallo en las instrucciones para el objetivo 'clean'
>> make: *** [clean] Error 1
> Have a look at the permissions of 'perl/build' and its contents, they
> are likely owned by root for reasons described in 2530afd's log
> message.
>

Right you are:

$ ll perl/build/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 ggonzalez ggonzalez 4096 mar  8 12:52 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root      root      4096 feb 14 13:56 man

The procedure would be just removing perl/build/ manually?

Thanks,

gaston

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