Re: GMP 6.2 error

2020-04-02 Thread William Galway
Most likely you need to use the command sudo make install and you will be prompted to type in the password for "root" (also known as the "superuser" or "administrator") -- "sudo" stands for "superuser do". As it is, you probably do not have permission to create the directory because you are NOT

Re: GMP 6.2 error

2020-04-01 Thread Niels Möller
Vincent Lefevre writes: > Seriously, I think that the default prefix is non-sense. But this is > not a GMP issue either, rather an autoconf issue. Consistency is nice too. I think it's old tradition to allow trusted non-root users to install things under /usr/local. E.g., on Debian GNU/Linux, if

Re: GMP 6.2 error

2020-04-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-01 09:45:18 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 2020-03-30 16:57, Torbjörn Granlund wrote: > > rodriguez-murias writes: > > > >When i make install : > > > >/usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/info’: > > Permission denied > > > > The inability to write into

Re: GMP 6.2 error

2020-04-01 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 2020-03-30 16:57, Torbjörn Granlund wrote: rodriguez-murias writes: When i make install : /usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/info’: Permission denied The inability to write into system directories as a non-root user is not due to a problem with GMP. You might

Re: GMP 6.2 error

2020-03-30 Thread Torbjörn Granlund
rodriguez-murias writes: When i make install : /usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/info’: Permission denied The inability to write into system directories as a non-root user is not due to a problem with GMP. You might want to grab a book on Unix and read the first fe

GMP 6.2 error

2020-03-30 Thread rodriguez-murias
Good morning, I am a PhD student and i am trying to install the GMP library. I run everything smoothly until the make install command where the following error appears: When i make install : /usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/info’: Permission denied make[3]: *** [M