I am trying to create a spec file for creating rpm files from cvs, here is a selected part: %build %configure make depend %make %install make install prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_prefix} some script that make install calls seems to ignore my prefix and tries to access the root filesystem, which obviously errors and closes because I am building the rpm as user. Terminal output from the isolation of this section of rpm build is: $ make install prefix=/home/jeff/rpm/tmp/build-root-wine/usr cd `dirname include/__install__` && make install make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jeff/rpm/BUILD/wine-20040128cvs/include' ../tools/mkinstalldirs -m 755 /usr/include/wine /usr/include/wine/windows /usr/include/wine/msvcrt /usr/include/wine/msvcrt/sys mkdir -m 755 -p -- /usr/include/wine /usr/include/wine/windows /usr/include/wine/msvcrt /usr/include/wine/msvcrt/sys mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/include/wine': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/include/wine': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/include/wine': Permission denied mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/include/wine': Permission denied make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jeff/rpm/BUILD/wine-20040128cvs/include' make: *** [include/__install__] Error 2 What am I doing wrong?