Hmm, You do not have write permissions to the --prefix directory /autofs/na3_home1/adams/petsc_master_opt64idx_pgi You will be prompted for the sudo password for any external package installs ===============================================================================
Do you have write permission for this directory? To test if you have write permission it does the following code: def setInstallDir(self): ''' setup installDir to either prefix or if that is not set to PETSC_DIR/PETSC_ARCH''' self.installSudo = '' self.installSudoMessage = '' if self.framework.argDB['prefix']: self.dir = self.framework.argDB['prefix'] try: os.makedirs(os.path.join(self.dir,'PETScTestDirectory')) os.rmdir(os.path.join(self.dir,'PETScTestDirectory')) except: self.installSudoMessage = 'You do not have write permissions to the --prefix directory '+self.dir+'\nYou will be prompted for the sudo password for any external package installs' Can you make a directory in /autofs/na3_home1/adams/ ? Barry > On Jun 4, 2015, at 9:43 PM, Mark Adams <mfad...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > Yet again, this one does have a slightly amusing and slightly baffling error > message though. > Mark > <configure.log>