Re: Permission denied while %makeinstall

[Andreas Radke <a radke arcor de>]

Jim Knoble schrieb:

>Circa 2005-09-11 11:59 dixit Bob Proulx:
>
>: Tony Earnshaw wrote:
>: > > Andreas Radke wrote:
>: > > ln: Erzeugen der symbolischen Verknüpfung ,,doc" zu ,,../xfce4/doc":
>: > > Permission denied
>: > > ...
>: > > Lots of other packages run through well. But some end with this "Permission
>: > > denied" error.
>: >
>: > The commas don't look particularly healthy to me.
>: 
>: I agree.
>
>The commas are an attempt to use localized double quotes with the ASCII
>character set.  The message above reads, translated into English:
>
>    ln: Creating symbolic link "doc" to "../xfce4/doc": Permission denied
>
>Basically:
>
>                            left                    right
>
>    English             "6" quotes above        "9" quotes above
>
>    German variant 1    right-pointing angles   left-pointing angles
>    German variant 2    "9" quotes on baseline  "6" quotes above
>
>A better ASCII representation for the German variant 2 quotes used in
>the message above would be:
>
>    ,,zitierte Worte''
>
>Better would be to use the double-angle quotes, as they are less
>ambiguous:
>
>    »zitiertie Worte«
>
>or, in ASCII:
>
>    >>zitierte Worte<<
>
>Complain to GNU, or whoever wrote that 'ln' implementation.
>
>Grüße,
>jim
>
>  
>
I have tried that out. I set locale via draklocale to english and still
get the same permission error.

Andreas