Re: [Libmesh-users] Problems building libMesh

[John P. <jwp...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 1:59 AM, Nikhil Vaidya <nik...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to install libMesh. The configure and make steps ran without
> problems. but the make install command gives errors:
>
> /usr/bin/install: ‘../../examples/run_common.sh’ and
> ‘/home/moose/libmesh/examples/run_common.sh’ are the same file
> make[3]: *** [install-dataDATA] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>
> The console output for the make install command is attached. What could be
> causing this problem?
>

It looks like you are using MOOSE? Are you using the
update_and_rebuild_libmesh.sh script from the moose/scripts directory?

It's possible that you have $LIBMESH_DIR set to /home/moose/libmesh, the
same location as the source tree, and you are trying to 'make install' on
top of that.

-- 
John