pbuild fails with "Permission denied"

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi

On Sun, May 16, 2010, Ole Streicher wrote:
> I am quite new to pbuilder, and could already successfully build two
> packages. Howeverm my third package fails within the build process:
> 
> [...]
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/libwcs-4.4.4/utils'
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 C/libwcs-4.4.4.a /usr/lib
> /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/libwcs-4.4.4.a': Permission denied


 This means you're trying to install to the system directory /usr/lib;
 change your debian/rules to install to debian/tmp, and to copy to
 binary packages in debian/name-of-package/.  Usually, make install
 DESTIR=debian/tmp + dh_install or something like that.

> When building directly, everything works fine.

 This might be because you're building as root, DO NOT build as root.

   HTH
-- 
Loïc Minier