Installation failing due to no write permissions on nvidia-docker/

[grisaitis]

Sorry, finding a separate issue from my other one (#49)...

Starting from a clean repo, I'm finding that sudo make install fails because root can't write to nvidia-docker/tools/. Specifically:

$ cd ~/src
$ git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker
$ cd nvidia-docker/
$ sudo make install
...
Successfully built 3ce152a99c3e
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘<home>/src/nvidia-docker/tools/bin’: Permission denied
make[1]: *** [build] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `<home>/src/nvidia-docker/tools'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I was able to fix this by granting write permissions to all users for nvidia-docker/, recursively. The original permissions on the folder were rwxr-xr-x <myself> <myprimarygroup>.

Should I do something different to make this work out of the box?

[flx42]

No, out of the box it works fine for multiple people on Ubuntu 14.04. So I'm quite puzzled by your issue since the latest command is ran as root.

Do you have funky umask or groups settings maybe?

[flx42]

Hey, were you able to figure out if there is anything unusual with your system setup?

[3XX0]

Closing the issue for now, I will reopen it if we manage to reproduce it.