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    <font size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Hello,<br>
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    <font size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">After a
        fair amount of work with Mac Ports I got the current mpich and
        hdf5 libraries installed, but pointers and permissions remain a
        problem.<br>
        <br>
        First, I placed /FLASH... in my home directory space and started
        the Sedov build.  That ended with a claim of SUCCESS, but the
        make fails early on ...<br>
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      <div align="left"><font color="#ff6666">Using Makefile.h:
          /Users/ret/FLASH4.2.2/sites/Prototypes/Darwin/Makefile.h<br>
          generating Makefile<br>
          SUCCESS<br>
          [19:38:~/FLASH4.2.2] ret>cd object<br>
          [19:39:~/FLASH4.2.2/object] ret>make<br>
          Calculating dependencies<br>
          ./setup_depends.py --generateINTERMEDIATElines -ggdb -c -O2
          -fdefault-real-8 -fdefault-double-8 -Wuninitialized  -I
          /opt/local/var/macports/software/hdf5/1.8.7/opt/local/include
          -DH5_USE_16_API -ggdb -c -O2 -Wuninitialized
          -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 *.f *.f90 *.F90 *.F <br>
          ./setup_addcdepends.py -I
          /opt/local/var/macports/software/hdf5/1.8.7/opt/local/include
          -DH5_USE_16_API -ggdb -c -O2 -Wuninitialized
          -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 *.c<br>
          rm -f reorder.sh<br>
          /opt/local/lib/mpich-mp -ggdb -c -O2 -fdefault-real-8
          -fdefault-double-8 -Wuninitialized  -DMAXBLOCKS=1000 -DNXB=8
          -DNYB=8 -DNZB=1 -DN_DIM=2 Burn_interface.F90<br>
          make: /opt/local/lib/mpich-mp: Permission denied</font><br>
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    <big><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">with the hdf5 and
        mpich paths apparently intelligible to the script, but some odd
        permission error killing it.<br>
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        I'm not sure whether the build would require write permissions
        or not, but as my normal "admin" user, I can certainly read the
        contents of any part of the "/opt/local/..." pathways.<br>
        <br>
        What might be wrong here?</font></big><font size="+1"><font
        face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big>
        </big>What guidance on correct permissions can any of you
        provide, please?<br>
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        Thanks,<br>
        Bob Terry </font></font><br>
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