James B. Byrne wrote: > I am doing a bit of investigative work to see just how hard it is to build > openssl for myself. The source from openssl.org is readily available and > the > spec file provided seems fairly usable. However, I am seeing lots of > errors > similar to this when I try to build it using mock: > > + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip > /usr/bin/objdump > /usr/bin/strip: unable to copy file > '/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/openssl-1.0.1f-1.x86_64/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0'; > reason: Permission denied > > What am I tripping over? Looks like it's rtrying to install it, not just build it. In the first example, you're trying to replace the existing /usr/bin/strip, which only root can do. Are you doing make, or make install? mark