[gentoo-dev] Bizarre permission problem when installing a package using my own ebuild.

[Dan Naumov]

Hello.

I decided to do an ebuild for "WebDownloader for X" and ran into a bizarre permission problem when the compiled package is being installed. For reference, here's the .ebuild itself:

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# Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

DESCRIPTION="A GUI program for downloading files using FTP/HTTP."

NAME="d4x"

SRC_URI="http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/files/${NAME}-${PV}.tar.gz
        ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/X11/applications/${NAME}-${PV}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/"

LICENSE="Artistic"

DEPEND="=dev-libs/glib-1.2*
        =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2*
        nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"

S=${WORKDIR}/${NAME}-${PV}

src_compile() {

    local myconf
    use nls || myconf="--disable-nls"
    use oss || myconf="${myconf} --disable-oss"
    use esd || myconf="${myconf} --disable-esd"

    ./configure ${myconf} \
        --prefix=/usr \
        --datadir=/usr/share \
        --infodir=/usr/share/info \
        --mandir=/usr/share/man \
        --enable-release || die "./configure failed"

    emake || die

}

src_install () {

    make DESTDIR=${D} install || die "install failed"

    dodoc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS PLANS README TODO

}
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The package compiles without errors, but during the installation, it aborts with the following error:

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/bin/sh ../admin/mkinstalldirs /usr/share/d4x
mkdir /usr/share/d4x
ACCESS DENIED  mkdir:     /usr/share/d4x
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/d4x': Permission denied
make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/webdownloader-2.0/work/d4x-2.0/share'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/webdownloader-2.0/work/d4x-2.0/share'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_install, Line 2, Exitcode 2
!!! install failed

--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-webdownloader-2.0-7385.log"

mkdir:     /usr/share/d4x
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
!!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/net-misc/webdownloader/webdownloader-2.0.ebuild .
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I can see that other packages have their subdirectories under /usr/share and that /usr/share itself is drwxr-xr-x and owned by root. I am (obviously) running emerge as root and for the life of me cannot figure out what prevents the ebuild from installing the package completely, any ideas ?

Sincerely,
Dan Naumov