Re: cygwin, perl5.10, INSTALLSITESCRIPT

[rovf]

Why do you want to CREATE /usr/bin ?

I guess the "real" error message is the one with not having write permissions on /usr/bin. Do you have installed Cygwin on a network drive? In this case, I found that there occur often oddities relating to write permissions. Can you manually create a new file in /usr/bin?

[Boldra]

Unless the install script is suing to another user during the install, the problem is not that I don't have write access to /usr/bin. My workaround was to change the value of INSTALLSITESCRIPT to /usr/bin_00, and then move the files after the make install. Since the files are now happily installed in /usr/bin, I must have write access...

No I suspect that because cygwin is doing some dark magic linking /usr/bin to /bin, somewhere along the line there's some code like:

if( not -d $dir ) {
  mkdir($dir) or die("can't create $dir because you don't have write p
+ermission")
}

and that -d test is failing because /usr/bin isn't really truly a directory.

Interestingly, if I change the Makefile to point to /usr/bin_00 and then install, the install works ok, even twice. So for some reason the install is not trying to create /usr/bin_00 the second time (even if I delete the scripts installed).