Ken Dawson <ken(_dot_)dawson(_at_)eng(_dot_)sun(_dot_)com>:
The "make" step succeeds.
The "make install" step fails with the following:
zr /usr/testsw/fetchmail-5.8.0>make install
Creating installation directories...
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /export/local-SunOS-5.x-sun4/bin
/export/local-SunOS-5.x-sun4/man/man1
Installing fetchmail binary...
./install-sh -c ./fetchmail /export/local-SunOS-5.x-sun4/bin/fetchmail
make: execvp: ./install-sh: Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 127
This is irrespective of whether the user is root or some other uid.
chmod a+x install-sh
Sorry, it should have been shipped that way.
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