Re: Compiling issure

[Eric]

On 5/18/20 11:20 PM, wanghannimei wrote:
> Dear GSL support team,
>
>
> I am having a problem compiling GSL-2.6 using Ubuntu. The problem is as follow:
>
>
> hwang@WANGlaptop:/mnt/c/gsl-2.6$ make install
> Making install in gsl
> make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/gsl'
> make[2]: Entering directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/gsl'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/gsl'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/gsl'
> Making install in utils
> make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/utils'
> make[2]: Entering directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/utils'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/utils'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/utils'
> Making install in sys
> make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/sys'
> make[2]: Entering directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/sys'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
>   /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/include/gsl'
> /usr/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/include/gsl’: Permission 
> denied
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:638: install-pkgincludeHEADERS] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/sys'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:918: install-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/c/gsl-2.6/sys'
> make: *** [Makefile:963: install-recursive] Error 1
>
>
> I am pretty new to this. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much.
>
>
> Take care,
> Han
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>   

Hi Han,

The error:

cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/include/gsl’: Permission denied

indicates you do not have the permission to install gsl in that directory. You 
can try the command:

sudo make install

if you have an administrative account.  It will ask for your password and then 
the install should complete.

Hope this helps,

Eric