On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote: > I got this error at configuration time: > > You do not have write access to create install directory given with > --prefix=/usr/local/petsc/dev/linux-gnu perhaps use --with-sudo=sudo > also > > Then I've added, the sudo stuff and worked. However, after the > configuation, the dir was not created. So the question is: in which > scenario PETSc does need access to the install dir at configuration > time?
PETSc does not NEED access until install time, however it is checking because people often screw this up. Matt > -- > Lisandro Dalc?n > --------------- > Centro Internacional de M?todos Computacionales en Ingenier?a (CIMEC) > Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnol?gico para la Industria Qu?mica (INTEC) > Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (CONICET) > PTLC - G?emes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina > Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 > > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener
