Nut upsdev - May 2025 - 2.8.3 build fail

Jim, unpacked, tried the INSTALL procedure, first as me, failed due to 
perms error, then did "make clean" then prefaced that command line
with
sudo. Again died, perms error:

 ?make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
 ?/usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/ups/include'
/usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ?/usr/local/ups?: Permission denied
make[3]: *** [Makefile:615: install-includeHEADERS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/gene/src/nut-2.8.3/include'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:739: install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/gene/src/nut-2.8.3/include'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:732: install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/gene/src/nut-2.8.3/include'
make: *** [Makefile:1030: install-recursive] Error 1

Do I need to sudo everything on debian bookworm? Did that got instructs 
to sudo make install-as-root, failed:

install-as-root: Apply systemd enabled/disabled service presets
Failed to preset all units: Unit /run/systemd/transient/session-2.scope 
is transient or generated.
make: *** [Makefile:2198: install-as-root] Error 1

Next?

Thank you.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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gene heskett via Nut-upsdev <nut-upsdev at alioth-lists.debian.net>
writes:
> Jim, unpacked, tried the INSTALL procedure, first as me, failed due to
> perms error, then did "make clean" then prefaced that command
line
> with sudo. Again died, perms error:
>
> ?make[3]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
> ?/usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/ups/include'
> /usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ?/usr/local/ups?: Permission denied
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:615: install-includeHEADERS] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/gene/src/nut-2.8.3/include'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:739: install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/gene/src/nut-2.8.3/include'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:732: install] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/gene/src/nut-2.8.3/include'
> make: *** [Makefile:1030: install-recursive] Error 1
>
> Do I need to sudo everything on debian bookworm? Did that got
> instructs to sudo make install-as-root, failed:
I am assuming that you configured --prefix=/usr/local/ups

So

  sudo make install

led to permission denied?  That seems odd.

What does

  sudo mkdir /usr/local/ups

say?  Is this is normal local fs, vs nfs?