[GRASS-dev] fix for build, ERROR: MAPSET PERMANENT - permission denied

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Wed Nov 11 09:01:07 EST 2009


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
...
> The dist.<arch>/demolocation demolocation is made by copying the
> demolocation directory using "tar cBf - ... | tar xBfo - ...". The
> copy should be owned by the current user (even if run as root, due to
> the -o flag; OTOH, this may not be recognised by non-GNU versions of
> "tar").
>
> Can you check the permissions on the dist.<arch>/demolocation
> directory?

The user confirmed offlist to me that he was on CVS,
not SVN. So he was looking at outdated GRASS source code.

Markus


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