missing dep => Permission denied in Koji (was: Re: Need help for a bison error)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:04:13AM +0200, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:22 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > Please give the task URL, not the file URL.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > Um, it's not exactly a bison error.
> > 
> > > make: execvp: bison: Permission denied
> > 
> > It's odd that that would be the error for bison just being missing.
> > But, did you use BuildRequires: bison?
> 
> /me bangs his head to the wall.
> 
> Ok, it was missing deps: bison, flex, krb5-devel and openssl-devel.

I was about to jump in and suggest a missing dep.  The same thing
happened to me yesterday, a "permission denied" error for a missing
dependency:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1257805&name=build.log

Why do we get this error for a missing program?  SELinux thing?

Rich.

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