Re: PHP build --with-pear fails: conflict over /tmp/pear/cache

Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Ofer Inbar <cos@aaaaa.org> wrote: > > Installing PEAR environment: /hlg/rpmbuild/buildroot/php-5.2.5-1- > > manual/usr/local/lib/php/download directory "/tmp/pear/cache" is not > > writeable. Change download_dir config variable to a writeable dir > > The quickest and easiest way, though it doesn't answer your other > questions, is to create the directory and make it writable, of course. True. On the systems in question, /tmp/pear/cache *does* exist, is owned by root, and is in active use. My local build should not tamper with it, so in this case the permission denied is a feature, not a bug: I'm running the local build as an unprivileged user specifically to prevent it from accidentally clobbering stuff in use by the system. Later, when the RPM is ready and I can schedule an upgrade, I can install it and allow it to overwrite the existing system install. (which comes from an RPM I build several months ago the same way) The right solution would be to have it use a relative path off the build directory, but I don't know enough to know why it doesn't do that. I also think it must've done that in the past, or I would've run into this problem in past builds (since we always do --with-pear). Thanks! Now what list should I jump to next? :) -- Cos