Guys, This is the first time I've seen makepkg not be able to create the $pkgdir/<dir> needed to package a file. I take it from the forum posts that this usually means that makepkg is trying to create the file in the actual filesystem instead of in the fakeroot $pkgdir. (eg: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=999088) However, I cannot figure out what is causing it to do so on this simple package. The actual error I receive is: ==> Packaging - tde-tqca-tls mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/': Permission denied make: *** [install_target] Error 1 What has me puzzled is this is a simple little package. The entire $srcdir/$pkgname after building is just: 16:24 nirvana:/mnt/nv1/home/chroot/david/build> l src/tqca-tls total 388 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nobody 4096 Mar 3 16:22 . drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 4096 Mar 3 16:22 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 11839 Mar 3 16:22 configure -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 436 Mar 3 16:22 conf.log -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 128 Mar 3 16:22 conf.pri -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 26430 Feb 16 11:55 COPYING -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 74 Mar 3 16:22 extra.pri -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 98829 Mar 3 16:22 libqca-tls.so -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 3557 Mar 3 16:22 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 1743 Feb 16 11:55 openssl.qcm -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 62 Feb 16 11:55 prepare -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 10409 Feb 17 17:22 qca.h -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 6028 Feb 16 11:55 qcaprovider.h -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 29465 Feb 16 11:55 qca-tls.cpp -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 1014 Feb 16 11:55 qca-tls.h -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 143896 Mar 3 16:22 qca-tls.o -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 478 Feb 16 11:55 qca-tls.pro -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 148 Feb 16 11:55 qca-tls.qc -rwxr-xr-x 1 nobody nobody 119 Feb 16 11:55 qcextra -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 360 Feb 16 11:55 README Looking at the Makefile generate by configure, the install part of the makefile is: install_target: all @$(CHK_DIR_EXISTS) "$(INSTALL_ROOT)/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/" || $(MKDIR) "$(INSTALL_ROOT)/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/" -$(INSTALL_FILE) "$(TARGET)" "$(INSTALL_ROOT)/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/$(TARGET)" -strip --strip-unneeded "$(INSTALL_ROOT)/opt/tqt3/plugins/crypto/$(TARGET)" The complete makefile is: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/arch/err/Makefile-tqca-tls.txt I'm not sure what makepkg needs to tell it to put the packages in the $pkgdir from within the Makefile. Anyone else been bitten by this? Any quick fix? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.