In an attempt to work around bug #15730, I built perl from souce. In doing so, I discovered that the RPM build dies when the build is performed as a non-root user. The fix is trivial. Here's a patch: --- perl5.005_03/installperl.orig Sat Jan 16 08:31:26 1999 +++ perl5.005_03/installperl Tue Aug 8 13:39:25 2000 @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ # Do some quick sanity checks. -if ($d_dosuid && $>) { die "You must run as root to install suidperl\n"; } +# if ($d_dosuid && $>) { die "You must run as root to install suidperl\n"; } $installbin || die "No installbin directory in config.sh\n"; -d $installbin || mkpath($installbin, 1, 0777);
assigned to nalin
Already fixed in the pinstripe beta, thanks.