Linwei, are you running the command as root? Try using sudo: # sudo make install
It will ask you for an administrator password. On Apr 29, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Linwei Wang wrote:
Dear all, I'm new to MPI... I'm trying to install open MPI on my mac (Leopard).. But during the installation (with the command "make install") it keeps generating errors of "Permission denied".... Anyone has an idea of the reasons? Part of the output is like: " Making install in etc test -z "/usr/local/etc" || ../../config/install-sh -c -d "/usr/local/ etc" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 openmpi-mca-params.conf /usr/local/etc/ openmpi-mca-params.conf install: /usr/local/etc/openmpi-mca-params.conf: Permission denied make[3]: *** [install-data-local] Error 71 make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 " Thanks in advance! Linwei _______________________________________________ users mailing list us...@open-mpi.org http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users