[rkward-devel] C stack usage too close to the limit

[Prasenjit Kapat]

Hi,

> > mkdir: cannot create directory
> > `/home/roland/packages/rkward/trunk/rkward/rkward/rbackend/rpackages/tmp/R.
> >INSTALL.6571-0419204514': Permission denied
> > mkdir: cannot create directory
>  `/home/roland/packages/rkward/trunk/rkward/rkward/rbackend/rpackages/tmp/R.
> >INSTALL.6571': Permission denied
> > ERROR: cannot create temporary directory
> > cd: 99: can't cd to
>
> > I didnot build using sudo, should that cause the Permission denied
> > error? I thought the fakeroot handled such issues?
>
> Theoretically, you should not need superuser privileges, and it works, here.
> Could you cd
> to /home/roland/packages/rkward/trunk/rkward/rkward/rbackend/rpackages/ and
> check whether the directory "tmp" exists, and if so, with what permissions?

Here it is:

$ ls -l ~/packages/rkward/trunk/rkward/rkward/rbackend/rpackages/
total 84
-rw-r--r-- 1 roland roland 21965 2007-04-06 03:18 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 roland roland   409 2007-03-25 02:12 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 roland roland 21359 2007-04-06 03:16 Makefile.in
drwxr-xr-x 6 roland roland  4096 2007-03-25 02:12 rkward
-rw-r--r-- 1 roland roland  8319 2007-04-06 03:22 rkward_0.4.7.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 roland roland  8547 2007-04-19 08:13 rkward_0.4.8.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root    4096 2007-04-06 03:28 tmp

hmm.. root is the owner...

Regards
PK