GCC make test errors

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 19:36, Jackson Pfeffer <crazykidjack@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I’m running all of this in a Manjaro Linux (Arch) virtual machine which uses and Ext4 filesystem0. I’m not aware of any deviation from standard POSIX permissions.
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> With that said.. I was running as root (I know… probably dumb… I just happened to be doing other things that do actually require root at the same time and I didn’t want to switch between users and stuff…).

Ah yes, that explains it.

> Anyways, could running as root cause the problem since root can probably do whatever it wants? I’m not sure exactly what file permission error it was expecting, but I could see that being an issue

Right. The superuser can always access a directory even if it has mode 000.