[Zope] Z-2.8.4 Install trouble on RedHat Enterprise 3

[Sam Moore]

On Dec 7, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Dieter Maurer wrote:

> Sam Moore wrote at 2005-12-6 16:59 -0500:
>> ...
>>>> copying zope/component/tests/__init__.py -> <myhomedirectory>/
>>>> Zope-2.8.4-final/build-base/python-2.4/build-lib/zope/component/ 
>>>> tests
>>>> error:<myhomedirectory>/Zope-2.8.4-final/build-base/python-2.4/ 
>>>> build-
>>>> lib/zope/component/tests/__init__.py: Operation not permitted
>>>
>>> Apparently, copying "zope/component/tests/__init__.py"
>>> to "<myhomedirectory>/>Zope-2.8.4-final/build-base/python-2.4/build-
>>> lib/zope/component/tests/__init__.py"
>>> fails.
>>
>> Well no, actually - the file gets copied! i checked.
>> But make stops at that point.
>
> It is likely that the copying process wants to modify permissions
> and/or access times and that this raises the "Operation not permitted"
> error.

That sounds reasonable, but if I'm root (or the owner of the  
directory, for that matter) at the time I run make, what else can I  
do to get out of it?

Does the whole directory need to be world-writable?

>
> -- 
> Dieter
>