On Dec 10, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Will Coleda via RT wrote:

> 
>  On Dec 9, 2006, at 10:26 PM, James Keenan (via RT) wrote:
> 
> > # New Ticket Created by  James Keenan
> > # Please include the string:  [perl #41064]
> > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41064 >
> >
> >
> > Once again I am unable to successfully 'make' Parrot on Darwin.  I
> > getting the same errors I was getting when I first tried at the
> > Chicago hackathon on Nov 11 -- nothwithstanding (a) having succeeded
> > with 'make' since then several times; and (b) applying all the hack
> > workarounds suggested at the hackathon.
> 
>  <SNIP>
> 
> > 60,95d58
> > < ops2c.pl: Cannot open source file 'src/ops/core_ops_cgp.c.temp'
> > for writing: Permission denied!
> 
>  AOOGA.
> 
> > < make: *** [src/ops/core_ops_cgp.c] Error 13
> > < [parrot] 523 $ ls -l src/ops/core_ops_cgp.c.temp
> > < -rw-r--r--   1 root  jimk  0 Dec  7 20:59 src/ops/
> > core_ops_cgp.c.temp
> > < [parrot] 524 $ ls -l src/ops/
> > < total 3536
> > < -rw-r--r--   1 jimk  jimk    7046 Nov 12 08:08 bit.ops
> > < -rw-r--r--   1 jimk  jimk   22308 Nov 12 08:08 cmp.ops
> > < -rw-r--r--   1 jimk  jimk   28238 Nov 12 08:08 core.ops
> > < -rw-r--r--   1 jimk  jimk  838227 Dec  9 21:32 core_ops.c
> > < -rw-r--r--   1 jimk  jimk  317139 Dec  9 21:32 core_ops_cg.c
> > < -rw-r--r--   1 root  jimk       0 Dec  7 20:59 core_ops_cgp.c.temp
> 
>  Looks like you ran 'make' as root at one point, and are now running
>  it as jimk. The temp file that was left out there is owned by root,
>  not deletable by your normal account. This would explain why things
>  seem to fail only on your box.
> 

I'm not sure how that temp file owned by root got there, but I  
deleted it, did make realclean and attempted to remake.  But I failed  
again, as documented in the second of 3 attachments submitted yesterday.