[postgis-devel] make check question

[Bryce L Nordgren]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Bryce L Nordgren <bnordgren at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Paragon Corporation <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>
>> ** ** **
>> That error usually happens for a couple of reasons
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> **a)       **Account doesn’t have rights to install (but since you got as
>> far as creating a db, that is probably not the issue)
>>
>
> Bingo.
>
> 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
>


> 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?
>

Quick followup: my home directory had permissions 700, a quick "chmod a+x ~"
fixed everything.
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