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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2007/09/16 20:24:17 UTC

Re: installing without root permission

Geno writes:
> gcc -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING
> -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include
> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> -I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386
> -mcpu=i686   -DVERSION=\"3.56\"
> -DXS_VERSION=\"3.56\" -fPIC
> "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE"
>  -DMARKED_SECTION Parser.c
> /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/gcc: Permission denied

That means that /usr/bin/gcc isn't executable by your uid.
I've seen this on hosts where the admin wants to block use of the
C compiler for security reasons -- I suspect that's what's
happening here...

--j.