Re: m4 installation failure (was: (no subject given!))

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Ivy Chiu <address@hidden> wrote:

> making install in doc
>         cd ../../doc && makeinfo m4.texinfo
> Making info file `m4.info' from `m4.texinfo'.
>         ../../doc/../mkinstalldirs /u/chiui/home/usr/local/info
>         cd ../../doc && for file in m4.info*; do  /usr/bin/installbsd -c -m 
> 644 $file /u/chiui/home/usr/local/info/$file;  done
> installbsd: /u/chiui/home/usr/local/info/m4.info: Operation not permitted.
[...]
> I am using AFS.  

That's your problem, probably. AFS is atypical for a Unix filesystem.
The permissions of an AFS directory carry more finely grained
information than the old -rwxrwxrwx of Unix.

One of the effects is that even 'root' may not be allowed to write to
any file, just like that. That does make sense, as AFS is a wide-area
network filesystem, and being root on one machine is not the same as
being the administrator of the whole WAN.

You'll have to inspect and understand the AFS access control lists to
see what really is allowed, for whom, in that directory:

        fs la /u/chiui/home/usr/local

for a start.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.