Mats> Hi, Mats> The html target is invoked during "make all" of the ecb Mats> package. This tries to install html files in the This is bad. I have designed the html target to be separate on Steve Youngs' explicit request. Please decouple the html target for the ecb package as well. Some have discussed how to distribute HTML docs with packages. This area needs some design proposals and discussion before implementation. Let's preserve the status quo until then, please. Best regards, Adrian Mats> XEMACS_STAGING-folder which I suspect is wrong. Mats> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mats> cd /usr/local/src/packages/xemacs-packages/ecb/ Mats> make all Mats> cp --force --recursive --symbolic-link /usr/local/src/packages/xemacs-packages/ecb/ecb*.html /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/html Mats> cp: cannot remove `/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/html/ecb.html': Permission denied Mats> [...] Mats> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mats> I always do "make autoloads all" as ordinary user an "make install" as Mats> root. This setup finds the problem since during "make all" the Mats> ordinary user hasn't got the rights to do things in the Mats> XEMACS_STAGING-folder. Mats> Unfortunately only one user executes the package smoketest so this Mats> problem isn't spotted there. That users has rights to created files in Mats> XEMACS_STAGING-folder so it isn't noticed. Mats> Maybe I should add to the smoketest a check that the Mats> XEMACS_STAGING-folder hasn't been created before the "make install" Mats> phase begins since "make all" shouldn't do anything with the install Mats> folders should it? Mats> Yours Mats> -- Mats> %% Mats -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/