I'm on libguestfs Fedora git master branch: $ git log | head -1 commit 8eb1aa2406632eb4202bbd976459334854295a77 $ yum-builddep libguestfs $ fedpkg local Results in: ========== . . . make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/libguestfs-1.25.18/gobject' Making all in docs make[4]: Entering directory `/home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/libguestfs-1.25.18/gobject/docs' make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/libguestfs-1.25.18/gobject/docs' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/libguestfs-1.25.18/gobject' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/libguestfs-1.25.18/gobject' Making all in golang make[2]: Entering directory `/home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/libguestfs-1.25.18/golang' ../run go install libguestfs.org/guestfs go install libguestfs.org/guestfs: open /usr/lib64/golang/pkg/linux_amd64/libguestfs.org/guestfs.a: permission denied make[2]: *** [pkg/linux_amd64/libguestfs.org/guestfs.a] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/libguestfs-1.25.18/golang' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kashyap/fedora-packaging/libguestfs/master/libguestfs-1.25.18' make: *** [all] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.wnFopm (%build) ========== There's no such file as guestfs.a in the above said directory: ========== $ tree /usr/lib64/golang/pkg/linux_amd64/libguestfs.org/ /usr/lib64/golang/pkg/linux_amd64/libguestfs.org/ └── guestfs 1 directory, 0 files ========== What am I missing? Thanks in advance. -- /kashyap