[bug #60975] Permission denied: ./developer-build -d finishes with error

[Pedram Ashofteh Ardakani]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60975>

                 Summary: Permission denied: ./developer-build -d finishes
with error
                 Project: GNU Astronomy Utilities
            Submitted by: pedram
            Submitted on: Mon 26 Jul 2021 08:17:35 PM UTC
                Category: Installation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Configuration file
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

After pulling the latest version of gnuastro from [1], deleting the build
directory from `shm`, running `autoreconf -f`, and running `./developer-build
-d`, I get the following error in the output. The complete log file is
attached below.

++++
[...]
Generating authors list for documentation.
/path/to/gnuastro/doc/genauthors: line 67: /path/to/gnuastro/doc/authors.texi:
Permission denied
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory '/dev/shm/gnuastro-0.15.16-b299/doc'
/path/to/gnuastro/doc/genauthors /path/to/gnuastro
help2man --no-discard-stderr --output=man/astarithmetic.1 --source="GNU
Astronomy Utilities 0.15.43-4ca94-dirty" -n "arithmetic operations on images
and numbers" \
                  --libtool ../bin/arithmetic/astarithmetic
help2man --no-discard-stderr --output=man/astbuildprog.1 --source="GNU
Astronomy Utilities 0.15.43-4ca94-dirty" -n "compile, link with Gnuastro
library and its dependencies, and run a C program"      \
                  --libtool ../bin/buildprog/astbuildprog
help2man --no-discard-stderr --output=man/astconvertt.1 --source="GNU
Astronomy Utilities 0.15.43-4ca94-dirty" -n "convert known data types to each
other"      \
                  --libtool ../bin/convertt/astconvertt
help2man --no-discard-stderr --output=man/astconvolve.1 --source="GNU
Astronomy Utilities 0.15.43-4ca94-dirty" -n "convolve an image with a given
kernel"       \
                  --libtool ../bin/convolve/astconvolve
help2man --no-discard-stderr --output=man/astcosmiccal.1 --source="GNU
Astronomy Utilities 0.15.43-4ca94-dirty" -n "estimate cosmological values"    
           \
                  --libtool ../bin/cosmiccal/astcosmiccal
help2man --no-discard-stderr --output=man/astcrop.1 --source="GNU Astronomy
Utilities 0.15.43-4ca94-dirty" -n "crop regions of a dataset"                 
 \
                  --libtool ../bin/crop/astcrop
Generating authors list for documentation.
/path/to/gnuastro/doc/genauthors: line 67: /path/to/gnuastro/doc/authors.texi:
Permission denied
help2man --no-discard-stderr --output=man/astfits.1 --source="GNU Astronomy
Utilities 0.15.43-4ca94-dirty" -n "view and manipulate FITS headers"          
 \
                  --libtool ../bin/fits/astfits
Updating /path/to/gnuastro/doc/version.texi
cp: cannot create regular file '/path/to/gnuastro/doc/stamp-vti': Permission
denied
make[3]: *** [Makefile:2165: /path/to/gnuastro/doc/stamp-vti] Error 1
[...]
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[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnuastro.git/



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Date: Mon 26 Jul 2021 08:17:35 PM UTC  Name:
20210626-pedram-dev-build-pull-latest-autoreconf.log  Size: 231KiB   By:
pedram

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=51697>

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