<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Hi,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"> When trying to compile fftw3.3.3 in our cluster I got following error. Apparently, it try to guess the build-type by trying to create a directory in scratch. I am not sure why it will try to create a directory there and then it fails. I was wondering whether there is any way-out to avoid this issue. Is there any way in a machine to know its build type and if so, what is the option in fftw to mention the directory.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Below is the error message.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif">Sanku</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">./configure --prefix=/home/joe/UTIL/fftw/ CC=gcc --enable-float</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">checking whether build environment is sane... yes</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">checking for gawk... gawk</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif">checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">checking build system type... mkdir: cannot create directory `/scratch/cg29917-21909': Permission denied</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">mkdir: cannot create directory `/scratch/cg-29917': Permission denied</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">config.guess: cannot create a temporary directory in /scratch</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one</font></div><div style="font-family: 'times new
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