I have also seen this error on my mac. I guess it is from the trailing slash as you suggest:
> echo $TMPDIR /var/folders/5q/lllv2yf95hg_n6h6kjttbmdw0000gn/T/ Achim Gratz writes: > Charles C. Berry writes: >> Doing this with `make test', I see that default-directory is let bound to >> >> "/var/folders/kb/2hchpbyj7lb6z76l0q73w_fh0000gn/T//tmp-orgtest/" >> >> and (concat default-directory "test.txt") will retain the double slash. > > Not to sound facetious, but it seems that the make variable testdir gets > set to a path that has a trailing slash. Fix that and the problem > should go away (most likely TMPDIR has a trailing slash). Check with > > : make config > > or even > > : make config-all > > that the variable is set correctly. > > Regards, > Achim. -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu