title: Why do I get permission denied when I try use "make" to install something?
body: <p>I'm trying to install something and it's throwing me an error: <code>Permission denied</code> when I try to run <code>make</code> on it.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not too fond of the universal rules of unix/linux and not too fond of user rights either.  My best guess is that the user I'm logged in as does not have the privileges to run <code>make</code> commands, but hopefully it's something else that's not permitting me to install.</p>
  
  <p>Why do I get <code>Permission denied</code> and what should I check or configure in order to attempt permission be granted? </p>
  
  <p><b>EDIT</b></p>
  
  <p>Error Message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>gcc -I. -O3 -o pp-inspector  pp-inspector.c
  make: execvp: gcc: Permission denied
  make: [pp-inspector] Error 127 (ignored)
  gcc -I. -O3 -c tis-vnc.c -DLIBOPENSSL -DLIBOPENSSLNEW -DLIBIDN -DHAVE_PR29_H -DLIBMYSQLCLIENT -DLIBPOSTGRES -DHAVE_MATH_H -I/usr/include/mysql
  make: execvp: gcc: Permission denied
  make: *** [tis-vnc.o] Error 127
  </code></pre>