Hi Chris, My guess is that a directory was not specified in which to install the software. The configure tries to test if the software can be installed in the /usr/local/ directory but you don't have access to it.
Could that be the issue? The --prefix option is for specifying the directory in which you wish to install the software. You can type ./configure -help to see the options that can be used with configure. -Barbara
Thanks for the tip, looks like you are exactly right. I confirmed this works on a more recent linux kernel, although I need to get it working on this older version. I compiled the C code with no problem, and then moved on to compiling the Java code on top of this. However, the configuration script is giving me some type of write error, and I'm not sure what to make of it. Based on the script output below, can you tell me what needs to be writable? Thanks, Chris [chrisbr@pdelogin08 hdf-java]$ ./runconfig-example.sh checking if tr works... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking if expr works... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for ceil in -lm... yes checking for rm... /bin/rm checking for find... /usr/bin/find checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnuoldld checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnuoldld checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnuoldld FYI the target here is: x86_64-pc-linux-gnuoldld checking gzip compression... yes zlib found: /home/chrisbr/temp/zlib-1.2.3-MacOSX-intel/lib/libz.a checking jpeg compression... no checking szip compression... suppressed checking HDF4 library... suppressed checking HDF5 library... yes HDF5 found: /home/chrisbr/hdf-1.8.7/lib checking dependencies for HDF5 library... OK checking HDF4to5 library... no checking jni.h usability... yes checking jni.h presence... yes checking for jni.h... yes checking for java... /nfs/local/.package/jdk-1.6.0_04/bin/java checking for javac... /nfs/local/.package/jdk-1.6.0_04/bin/javac checking for javadoc... /nfs/local/.package/jdk-1.6.0_04/bin/javadoc checking for jar... /nfs/local/.package/jdk-1.6.0_04/bin/jar configure: error: : not writable
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