Cannot create directory while compiling perl 5.16.1

szabgab has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I guess it is some kind a local system issue, but so far I could not figure it out. When I try to build perl 5.16.1 on a Linux box I get this error in the make phase:

./miniperl -Ilib write_buildcustomize.pl >lib/buildcustomize.pl
./miniperl -Ilib make_ext.pl cpan/Archive-Extract/pm_to_blib MAKE=make
+ LIBPERL_A=libperl.a
        Making Archive::Extract (all)

Creating Makefile.PL in cpan/Archive-Extract for Archive::Extract

Running Makefile.PL in cpan/Archive-Extract
../../miniperl -I../../lib Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=perl INSTALLMAN1DIR
+=none INSTALLMAN3DIR=none PERL_CORE=1 LIBPERL_A=libperl.a
Writing Makefile for Archive::Extract
make[1]: Entering directory `/a/users/develop/gabor/perl-5.16.1/cpan/A
+rchive-Extract'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/a/users/develop/gabor/perl-5.16.1/cpan/Ar
+chive-Extract'
Making all in cpan/Archive-Extract
 make all PERL_CORE=1 LIBPERL_A=libperl.a
make[1]: Entering directory `/a/users/develop/gabor/perl-5.16.1/cpan/A
+rchive-Extract'
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
ERROR: Can't create '../../lib/auto'
Do not have write permissions on '../../lib/auto'
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
 at -e line 1.
make[1]: *** [pm_to_blib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/a/users/develop/gabor/perl-5.16.1/cpan/Ar
+chive-Extract'
Unsuccessful make(cpan/Archive-Extract): code=512 at make_ext.pl line 
+466.
make: *** [cpan/Archive-Extract/pm_to_blib] Error 25
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But after this error /a/users/develop/gabor/perl-5.16.1/lib/auto already exists and /a/users/develop/gabor/perl-5.16.1/lib/auto/Archive/Extract also exists,

Update

After IT fixed the userids and the permissions, the building perl worked fine. Thank you for your attention and sorry for the drama.

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Re: Cannot create directory while compiling perl 5.16.1 by shlomif (Beadle) on Sep 09, 2012 at 10:52 UTC
Hi szabgab, can you please provide the following information: Which distibution and version does this Linux box run? How did you invoke "sh Configure"? Any special configuration parameters? If you only do `sh Configure -de -Dprefix=$HOME/apps/perl/bleadperl` does it work properly? Is this Linux machine at a remote hosting? If so - which? Hopefully I or others will be able to help you after getting this information.	[reply]
Re^2: Cannot create directory while compiling perl 5.16.1 by szabgab (Priest) on Sep 09, 2012 at 11:01 UTC
It tells me it is a "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)" but I suspect it might be CentOS. ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/a/it/perl5-15.1 The /a is an NFS. My suspicion is that the usernames and ids have some issues. I run as user "abc" but the files I create have owner "def" and group "xyz". Also I noticed user "abc" has two entries in /etc/passwd The local IT team is working on fixing the userids and usernames, but I am not sure if this is the source of the problem,	[reply]