Re: [Flex-help] autogen.sh produces error, maybe need to change a path?

[Will E. <wes...@gm...>]

Do you need to modify flex itself? If not, you're better served by using one of the source distributions that will have  the intermediate files included so you can take up immediately with using the configure script which supports a number of arguments to specify where various things should end up. See https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/tag/v2.6.4 for the most current release of flex.

On Sunday,  6 March 2022,  9:00 pm +0000, Ashley Rohde <a.t...@ho...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm having trouble with the last installation step of flex (so close). The error messages are included below. I suspect the problem is that the autogen script tries to install something (libtoolize? autoreconf?) into the user directory, but I am working on a cluster computer that requires me to use a project file (/project/bee-genomics/ashley.rohde), which is where all of the supporting programs are installed. I can't see a place in the script to change this destination and I don't know what to do. I am pretty new to working from a command line and this is the first time I've had to compile a program. Any help anyone could provide is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ashley Rohde
>
> Error message:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/project/bee-genomics/ashley.rohde/autoconf-2.71'
> make[2]: Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 47 s in the future
>  /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/user/share/autoconf/bin'
> /usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory '/user': Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [install-binSCRIPTS] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/project/bee-genomics/ashley.rohde/autoconf-2.71'
> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/project/bee-genomics/ashley.rohde/autoconf-2.71'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
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