20405 2003-05-03 19:10 0000 tmp-directory is not set at configuration --> Permission denied when calling ctags 2003-05-26 12:28:15 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 gentoo-bug@abc.delta64.com agriffis@gentoo.org gentoo-bug@abc.delta64.com 2003-05-03 19:10:08 0000 noticed this, when using tagexplorer.vim -plugin for vim. Always got permission denied. Used strace and got the following: open("/var/tmp/portage/ctags-5.5/temp/tags.UuTPeQ", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) write(2, "exuberant-ctags: ", 17exuberant-ctags: ) = 17 write(2, "cannot open temporary file", 26cannot open temporary file) = 26 write(2, " : Permission denied", 20 : Permission denied) = 20 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 _exit(1) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./usr/bin/exuberant-ctags -f - --format=2 --excmd=pattern --fields=nKs --sort=no "env.scm" 2. 3. easy to fix, just add to the econf line in the ebuild: --enable-tmpdir=/tmp --> econf --enable-tmpdir=/tmp --with-posix-regex --without-readlib --disable-etags || die agriffis@gentoo.org 2003-05-26 12:28:15 0000 fixed in ctags-5.5-r1, thanks