problem installing cdstatus on RH7.3

[Mertens Bram]

Hi,

I untarred the archive to /usr/src/cdstatus/ and I got the following error when running make (as normal user):
[M8ram@localhost cdstatus]$ make
gcc -O2 -o cdstatus cdstatus.c
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file cdstatus: Permission denied
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [all] Error 1

TIA

[Nathanael Hoyle]

My guess would be that you may not as a normal user have permission to write into /usr/src/.

I'd recommend that you extract the tarball into a subdirectory of your own home directory (i.e. /home/m8ram/cdstatus) and run make as m8ram in that directory.  Then su to root, and go back into /home/m8ram/cdstatus and issue

# make install

and that should work.  If it doesn't, please let me know, I may have screwed up file permissions for the release.

-Nathanael Hoyle

[Mertens Bram]

Hi,

After changing the owner and group af the directory and all files everything ran fine!

I extracted the tar-file as root to /usr/src and the owner and group of all files were set to 919:504...

Thanks