owl-users - Re: make buildworld troubles

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 02:54:36 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: make buildworld troubles

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:39:20PM +0100, Bernd 'beli' Liebscher wrote:
> i had similar problems with the buildworld procedure...
> ...and yes, i built a new kernel and verified the permissions
> of the include dir/files. 

You could issue a find command looking for any files that aren't
world-readable:

find /usr/include/linux/ /usr/include/asm/ -type f ! -perm +004 -ls

> adding some debug lines to the buildworld.sh script showed me
> where the error occurs.

It's where the _check_ occurs.  The error must be yours. ;-)

> i wrote a little patch to remove the lines checking for the includes:

I don't think a buildworld would complete with no errors if this check
would fail, but is bypassed.  I added it for a reason.  Please don't
remove it.

-- 
/sd