driver/xf86-input-vmmouse : cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xorg-vmmouse.rules': Permission denied

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:48:08PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> 
> Rightly so, my build halted when it tried to make a change in /lib/udev/rules.d which
> is well outside of my /opt/xorg target directory.
> 
> Do I need to isolate this module, build it as root, and then go back to being a 
> regular user or ?? 

vmmouse gets the directory to install the udev rules from pkgconfig by
default, or --with-udev-rules-dir at configure time. if you don't need the
rules, you can consider the installation as successful though and continue
to the next module.

Cheers,
   Peter

> ======================================================================
> ==  Processing module/component:  "driver/xf86-input-vmmouse"
> ==        configuration options:   
> Cloning into driver/xf86-input-vmmouse...
> remote: Counting objects: 513, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (343/343), done.
> remote: Total 513 (delta 295), reused 286 (delta 170)
> Receiving objects: 100% (513/513), 102.05 KiB | 105 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (295/295), done.
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /opt/xorg/share/aclocal 
> configure.ac:24: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> configure.ac:24: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg
> autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy
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> libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> configure.ac:24: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
> configure.ac:24: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
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> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
> configure.ac:24: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg
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> config.status: executing depfiles commands
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> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse'
> Making all in shared
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/shared'
>   CC     vmmouse_client.lo
>   CC     vmmouse_proto.lo
>   CCLD   libvmmouse.la
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/shared'
> Making all in src
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/src'
>   CC     vmmouse.lo
>   CCLD   vmmouse_drv.la
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/src'
> Making all in tools
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/tools'
>   CC     vmmouse_detect.o
>   CCLD   vmmouse_detect
>   GEN    hal-probe-vmmouse
>   GEN    69-xorg-vmmouse.rules
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/tools'
> Making all in fdi
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/fdi'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
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> Making all in man
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/man'
>   GEN    vmmouse_detect.1
>   GEN    vmmouse.4
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/man'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse'
> Making install in shared
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/shared'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/shared'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/shared'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/shared'
> Making install in src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/src'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/src'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> test -z "/opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/input" || /bin/mkdir -p "/opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/input"
>  /bin/bash ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   vmmouse_drv.la '/opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/input'
> libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/vmmouse_drv.so /opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.so
> libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/vmmouse_drv.lai /opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/input/vmmouse_drv.la
> libtool: finish: PATH="/opt/xorg/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/schily/bin:/sbin" ldconfig -n /opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/input
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Libraries have been installed in:
>    /opt/xorg/lib/xorg/modules/input
> 
> If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
> in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
> specify the full pathname of the library, or use the `-LLIBDIR'
> flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
>    - add LIBDIR to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
>      during execution
>    - add LIBDIR to the `LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
>      during linking
>    - use the `-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
>    - have your system administrator add LIBDIR to `/etc/ld.so.conf'
> 
> See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
> more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/src'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/src'
> Making install in tools
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/tools'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/tools'
> test -z "/opt/xorg/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/opt/xorg/bin"
>   /bin/bash ../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c vmmouse_detect '/opt/xorg/bin'
> libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c vmmouse_detect /opt/xorg/bin/vmmouse_detect
> test -z "/opt/xorg/lib/hal" || /bin/mkdir -p "/opt/xorg/lib/hal"
>  /usr/bin/install -c hal-probe-vmmouse '/opt/xorg/lib/hal'
> test -z "/opt/xorg/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" || /bin/mkdir -p "/opt/xorg/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 50-vmmouse.conf '/opt/xorg/share/X11/xorg.conf.d'
> test -z "/lib/udev/rules.d" || /bin/mkdir -p "/lib/udev/rules.d"
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 69-xorg-vmmouse.rules '/lib/udev/rules.d'
> /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xorg-vmmouse.rules': Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [install-udevDATA] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/tools'
> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dclarke/xorg/driver/xf86-input-vmmouse/tools'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> build.sh: " env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/xorg/lib make  install" failed on driver/xf86-input-vmmouse
> build.sh: error processing module/component:  "driver/xf86-input-vmmouse"
> aster $ 
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