Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild problem

[Jason Ritchie <jasonr@myrealbox.com>]

The package is trying to put the manpages directly into your /usr tree instead of ${D}/usr.  Try adding --mandir=${D}/usr/share/man to your configure or make line.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Shea <doug_shea@alumni.ucsd.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 15:42:20 -0700 
Subject: [gentoo-dev] ebuild problem


    Hello. I'm trying to make a new .ebuild file for a package that I 
like to use under Linux (DVD::Rip), and I'm testing it on my machine, 
and it's giving me an error that I don't understand. The dependencies 
work, and it seems to finish the compile part okay, but it fails when 
installing into the image directory.
    The error is this:

ACCESS DENIED  open_wr:   /usr/share/man/man1/splitpipe.1
Installing /usr/share/man/man1/splitpipe.1
ACCESS DENIED  utime:     /usr/share/man/man1/splitpipe.1
ACCESS DENIED  chmod:     /usr/share/man/man1/splitpipe.1

    ...and there's a summary containing basically those three lines, at 
the end; no new information there.

    What can be causing this error, and how can I fix it? I'm guessing
that the package that I'm trying to install is doing something wrong,
but I don't want to go mucking around in that until I'm sure that's the
right thing to do.
    Any help would be appreciated, especially pointers to TFM, if there
is one I don't know about, other than the HOWTO link on the Gentoo
homepage. Thanks!

Doug