[petsc-dev] Titan error

[Mark Adams]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   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/ ?
>

This is my home directory:

env003/petsc> ll -a /autofs/na3_home1/adams/
total 20544
drwxr-xr-x   39 adams users    12288 May 16 07:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 5027 root  root    163840 May 22 16:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x    6 adams adams     4096 Jan  9 07:26 .allinea

THis script worked a few months ago.  I will try to build with a prefix,
just to see if that is the only problem.



>
>
>   Barry
>
> > On Jun 4, 2015, at 9:43 PM, Mark Adams <mfadams at lbl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Yet again, this one does have a slightly amusing and slightly baffling
> error message though.
> > Mark
> > <configure.log>
>
>
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