dharmashankar subramanian wrote: > Hi Shawn, > It appears to me that the directory has both read, as well as execute > permissions (for me). > > See below, the output of 'ls -al' inside the directory. > > > > $ ls -al > total 28 > drwxr-s--x 3 shankar shankar 2048 2005-02-14 11:24 . > drwxr-s--x 8 shankar shankar 2048 2009-12-29 13:11 .. > -rw-r----- 1 shankar shankar 8355 2001-08-09 03:46 Common.pm > drwxr-s--x 2 shankar shankar 2048 2005-02-14 11:24 ExtUtils > -rw-r----- 1 shankar shankar 1001 2001-08-09 04:00 IO_Lines.t > -rw-r----- 1 shankar shankar 1122 2001-08-09 03:42 IO_Scalar.t > -rw-r----- 1 shankar shankar 1031 2001-08-09 04:00 IO_ScalarArray.t > -rw-r----- 1 shankar shankar 1026 1998-03-27 02:31 IO_WrapTie.t > -rw-r----- 1 shankar shankar 1168 2001-08-07 03:15 simple.t > -rw-r----- 1 shankar shankar 942 2001-08-07 02:02 two.t > > > Any clue why? > > Thanks, > Shankar > > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com > <mailto:shawnhco...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Shankar wrote: > > 1. perl Makefile.PL > > 2. make > > 3. make test > > 4. make install (This fails, I think, because I don't have any root or > > super user permissions to make a site-wide install. Is that correct? > > > > Steps 1 and 2 succeeded. > > Step 3 in each of the modules that I attempted to install on my home > > directory, gives an error that seems to say none of the *.t files are > > readable. > > Is the t/ directory executable? > > UNIX has a quirk where a directory must be readable and executable to > gain access to its files. If a directory is readable but not > executable, you can read the names of the files but you can't access > their i-nodes. That means, you can't access their contents. You can > list the names with `ls` but trying to access their i-nodes fails, like > with `ls -l`.
The above listing is not the same as the one in the OP. Can you get a listing for one of the test files, say t/Aliases.t ? BTW, use `Reply all` to reply to the sender and the list. :) -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
