Hi, Ralf. So it seems that either approach works. One can `chmod u+w *` or `chmod u+w configure` on its own, allowing the autogen process to complete successfully on FreeBSD 6.2. Note also, that neither change to autogen.sh breaks the Linux autogen process.
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Karol, > > * Karol Mroz wrote on Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:23:50PM CEST: >> When running the autogen.sh script as non-root, I see the following error: > [...] >> autom4te-2.61: cannot open configure: Permission denied > [...] >> After some searching, it would appear that this is an autoconf issue >> that crops up in FreeBSD but, for whatever reason, not in Linux. A quick >> workaround is to add: `chmod -vr u+w *` just before autogen issues the >> `run_and_check $ompi_autoconf` command on line 438. > > I can look into this if needed. Is it sufficient to make > opal/libltdl/configure writable, or its containing directory? > > As a workaround you should be able to use nightly tarballs > instead of the SVN version. > > Cheers, > Ralf > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel Thanks. -- Karol Mroz km...@cs.ubc.ca