<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bryce L Nordgren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bnordgren@gmail.com">bnordgren@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Paragon Corporation <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lr@pcorp.us" target="_blank">lr@pcorp.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">That error usually happens for a couple of
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><span>a)<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></font></span></span></font><u></u><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Account doesn’t have rights to install (but since you got as
far as creating a db, that is probably not the issue)</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br>Bingo.<br><br>psql:/home/bnordgren/src/postgis-geos/regress/postgis.sql:65: ERROR: could not access file "/home/bnordgren/src/postgis-geos-build/regress/00-regress-install/lib/postgis-2.0": Permission denied<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>It appears that the system's postgresql instance (running as user postgres) does not have permission to access the non-installed .so files in my directory (owned by me). Wouldn't it make sense to have "make check" create a directory structure with world read/execute permissions if it's planning on setting up this kind of situation? <br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Quick followup: my home directory had permissions 700, a quick "chmod a+x ~" fixed everything. <br></div></div>