[BUG perl 5.10.0] Permission denied when building as non-root user on FreeBSD 6.2+ #9454

p5pRT · 2008-08-20T21:15:05Z

Migrated from rt.perl.org#58180 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT58180$

p5pRT · 2008-08-20T21:15:07Z

From italpro@qs1213.pair.com

Created by italpro@qs1213.pair.com

When building Perl 5.10.0 under FreeBSD 6.2 (and I think more recent
versions) as well as a non-root (unprivilged user).

This happens because recent FreeBSD releases make /usr/home unreadable
by regular users, and for some reasons perl installation fails if it
cannon opendir() that directory - and it probably shouldn't fail.
I asked the superuser to make that directory readable to me and perl
built and installed regularly.

==> HOW TO REPRODUCE

- Login as unprivileged user
- Unpack the perl 5.10 distribution
# sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/your/local/directory
# make

==> ERROR (reporting the last part of "make" output)

cd lib/unicore && ../../miniperl -I../../lib mktables -w
touch uni.data
`sh cflags "optimize='-O'" perlmain.o` perlmain.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -std=c89 -O
+-Wall -ansi -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels

Making DynaLoader (static)
Makefile out-of-date with respect to ../../lib/Config.pm ../../config.h
Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile...
make -f Makefile.old clean > /dev/null 2>&1
../../miniperl "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" Makefile.PL "INSTALLDIRS=perl" "INSTALLMAN3DIR=none" "PERL_CORE=1" "LIBPERL_A=libperl.a"
opendir(./../../../../..): Permission denied at ../../lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm line 478
opendir(./../../../../..): Permission denied at ../../lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm line 478
Writing Makefile for DynaLoader
==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <==
==> Please rerun the make command. <==
false
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/italpro/soft/perl-5.10.0/ext/DynaLoader.
make config failed, continuing anyway...
/miniperl: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop in /usr/home/italpro/soft/perl-5.10.0/ext/DynaLoader.
*** Error code 1

Perl Info


Flags:
    category=install
    severity=medium

Site configuration information for perl 5.10.0:

Configured by italpro at Wed Aug 20 16:57:09 EDT 2008.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=6.2-release-p1, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd qs1213.pair.com 6.2-release-p1 freebsd 6.2-release-p1 #1: mon may 7 14:30:09 edt 2007 mlehner@mayon.pair.com:usrobjusrsrcsys6pairc-smp i386 '
    config_args='-de -Dprefix=/usr/home/italpro/localperl -Dinstallscript=/usr/home/italpro/localperl/scripts'
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E  -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC', lddlflags='-shared  -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.10.0:
    /usr/home/italpro/localperl/lib/5.10.0/i386-freebsd
    /usr/home/italpro/localperl/lib/5.10.0
    /usr/home/italpro/localperl/lib/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-freebsd
    /usr/home/italpro/localperl/lib/site_perl/5.10.0
    .


Environment for perl 5.10.0:
    HOME=/usr/home/italpro
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/italpro/bin:/home/italpro/localperl/bin:/home/italpro/localperl/scripts:/home/italpro/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/home/italpro/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash

p5pRT · 2008-10-02T01:37:46Z

From tsibley@cpan.org

I can confirm that this happens for me with both 5.10.0 and 5.8.8 on
Linux (2.4.32) where /home is unreadable (but executable) by my user.

p5pRT · 2008-10-02T01:37:49Z

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

p5pRT · 2008-11-07T13:25:00Z

From @smpeters

On Wed Aug 20 14:15:07 2008, italpro@qs1213.pair.com wrote:

This is a bug report for perl from italpro@qs1213.pair.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please enter your report here]

When building Perl 5.10.0 under FreeBSD 6.2 (and I think more recent
versions) as well as a non-root (unprivilged user).

This happens because recent FreeBSD releases make /usr/home unreadable
by regular users, and for some reasons perl installation fails if it
cannon opendir() that directory - and it probably shouldn't fail.
I asked the superuser to make that directory readable to me and perl
built and installed regularly.

==> HOW TO REPRODUCE

- Login as unprivileged user
- Unpack the perl 5.10 distribution
# sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/your/local/directory
# make

==> ERROR (reporting the last part of "make" output)

cd lib/unicore && ../../miniperl -I../../lib mktables -w
touch uni.data
`sh cflags "optimize='-O'" perlmain.o` perlmain.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -std=c89 -O
+-Wall -ansi -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels
Making DynaLoader $static$
Makefile out-of-date with respect to ../../lib/Config.pm
../../config.h
Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile...
make -f Makefile.old clean > /dev/null 2>&1
../../miniperl "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" Makefile.PL
"INSTALLDIRS=perl" "INSTALLMAN3DIR=none" "PERL_CORE=1"
"LIBPERL_A=libperl.a"
opendir(./../../../../..): Permission denied at
../../lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm line 478
opendir(./../../../../..): Permission denied at
../../lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm line 478
Writing Makefile for DynaLoader
==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <==
==> Please rerun the make command. <==
false
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/italpro/soft/perl-5.10.0/ext/DynaLoader.
make config failed, continuing anyway...
/miniperl: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop in /usr/home/italpro/soft/perl-5.10.0/ext/DynaLoader.
*** Error code 1

What are your exact permissions on /usr/home? I want to investigate this problem, but I'd
like to work with the exact permissions you have.

Thanks,

Steve Peters

p5pRT · 2008-11-07T14:59:56Z

From arthas@nordest.pm.org

Hello Steve!

This was on the FreeBSD box of my ISP. I am a non-root user and I
couldn't even
read /usr/home (I could only read my home directory at
/usr/home/italpro). This
seems to be common on FreeBSD 6.x, where normal user can't see /usr/home
contents in order not to see the list of the other user directories.

I then asked and obtained read access to that directory from my ISP, and
perl
built fine. I however feel that perl should build locally even if
/usr/home is
not accessible.

Thanks in advance for investigating.

Michele.

p5pRT · 2008-11-08T13:18:32Z

From @LordArthas

Hi Steve!

What are your exact permissions on /usr/home? I want to investigate this problem, but I'd
like to work with the exact permissions you have.

This was on the FreeBSD box of my ISP. I am a non-root user and I couldn't even
read /usr/home (I could only read my home directory at /usr/home/italpro). This
seems to be common on FreeBSD 6.x, where normal user can't see /usr/home
contents in order not to see the list of the other user directories.

I then asked and obtained read access to that directory from my ISP, and perl
built fine. I however feel that perl should build locally even if /usr/home is
not accessible.

Thanks in advance for investigating.

Talk to you soon,
Michele.

--
Michele Beltrame
http://www.italpro.net/
ICQ 76660101 - SkyPe arthas77

p5pRT · 2009-04-25T03:24:10Z

From schmonz@schmonz.com

Like tsibley, I can confirm this with 5.10.0 on Linux 2.4.32 (as
provided by DreamHost) with /home thus:

drwxrws--x 394 root staff 36864 2009-04-24 09:17 /home

Any progress on a fix?

Thanks,

- Amitai

p5pRT · 2009-05-21T15:48:42Z

From i@h2l.name

I have the same problem when tried to install 5.10.0
Is there any progress about the issue?

Some information about the system I am using:

$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l

$ uname -a
Linux razzle
2.4.32-grsec+f6b+gr217+nfs+a32+fuse23+tg+++opt+c8+gr2b-v6.194 #1 SMP Tue
Jun 6 15:52:09 PDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

$ ls -dl /home
drwxrws--x 234 root staff 28672 2009-05-20 12:47 /home/

p5pRT · 2010-01-16T11:42:19Z

From p5p@spam.wizbit.be

On Wed Aug 20 14:15:07 2008, italpro@qs1213.pair.com wrote:

This is a bug report for perl from italpro@qs1213.pair.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
[Please enter your report here]

When building Perl 5.10.0 under FreeBSD 6.2 (and I think more recent
versions) as well as a non-root (unprivilged user).

This happens because recent FreeBSD releases make /usr/home
unreadable
by regular users, and for some reasons perl installation fails if it
cannon opendir() that directory - and it probably shouldn't fail.
I asked the superuser to make that directory readable to me and perl
built and installed regularly.

==> HOW TO REPRODUCE

- Login as unprivileged user
- Unpack the perl 5.10 distribution
# sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/your/local/directory
# make

==> ERROR (reporting the last part of "make" output)

cd lib/unicore && ../../miniperl -I../../lib mktables -w
touch uni.data
`sh cflags "optimize='-O'" perlmain.o` perlmain.c
CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -DHAS_FPSETMASK -
DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -std=c89 -O
+-Wall -ansi -W -Wextra -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-
labels
Making DynaLoader $static$
Makefile out-of-date with respect to ../../lib/Config.pm
../../config.h
Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile...
make -f Makefile.old clean > /dev/null 2>&1
../../miniperl "-I../../lib" "-I../../lib" Makefile.PL
"INSTALLDIRS=perl" "INSTALLMAN3DIR=none" "PERL_CORE=1"
"LIBPERL_A=libperl.a"
opendir(./../../../../..): Permission denied at
../../lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm line 478
opendir(./../../../../..): Permission denied at
../../lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm line 478
Writing Makefile for DynaLoader
==> Your Makefile has been rebuilt. <==
==> Please rerun the make command. <==
false
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/italpro/soft/perl-5.10.0/ext/DynaLoader.
make config failed, continuing anyway...
/miniperl: not found
*** Error code 127

Stop in /usr/home/italpro/soft/perl-5.10.0/ext/DynaLoader.
*** Error code 1

[Please do not change anything below this line]
-----------------------------------------------------------------

This problem was fixed in perl-5.10.1 (and perl-5.11.x).

The cause:
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=34971
Bug #34971 for ExtUtils-MakeMaker: ExtUtils::MakeMaker Requires All
Parent

The fix:
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SMUELLER/PathTools-3.31/Changes

3.26 - Sun Jan 13 21:59:20 2008

- case_tolerant() on Cygwin will now avoid a painful death when
Cygwin::mount_flags() isn't defined, as is the case for perl <
5.10. It will now just return 1, which is what it always did
before it got so smart. [Spotted by Emanuele Zeppieri]

- abs_path() on Unix(ish) platforms has been upgraded to a much later
version of the underlying C code from BSD. [Michael Schwern]

The diff:
@@ -540,8 +540,8 @@
local *PARENT;
unless (opendir(PARENT, $dotdots))
{
- _carp("opendir($dotdots): $!");
- return '';
+ # probably a permissions issue. Try the native command.
+ return File::Spec->rel2abs( $start, _backtick_pwd() );
}

Best regards,

Bram

p5pRT · 2010-01-16T11:42:21Z

p5p@spam.wizbit.be - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

p5pRT closed this as completed Jan 16, 2010

p5pRT added Severity Medium distro-freebsd type-install labels Oct 18, 2019

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From italpro@qs1213.pair.com

Created by italpro@qs1213.pair.com

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