[gmx-users] Unable to make install Gromacs on Cygwin

[Shrinath Kumar]

On 8 June 2018 at 19:35, Matthew Fisher <matthew.fisher at stcatz.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
>
> I'm wondering if anyone could help me. I've been compiling GROMACS in
> Windows using CYGWIN and this tutorial - http://megaddl.pcriot.com/
> installing-gromacs-5-1-1-in-windows-using-cygwin/
>
> However, when I go to make install, I get the following output:
>
>
> $ make install
> [  0%] Built target fftwBuild
> [  0%] Built target tng_io_zlib
> [  1%] Built target tng_io_obj
> [ 98%] Built target libgromacs
> [100%] Built target template
> [100%] Built target view_objlib
> [100%] Built target mdrun_objlib
> [100%] Built target gmx
> [100%] Built target mdrun_test_objlib
> Install the project...
> -- Install configuration: "Release"
> -- Up-to-date: /usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/COPYING
> CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:31 (file):
>   file INSTALL cannot set permissions on
>   "/usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/COPYING"
>
>
> Any idea what I should do to rectify this?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew
>
>
> Matthew Fisher
> DPhil Candidate in Inorganic Chemistry (L.L.Wong Group)
> Junior Dean, St Catherine’s College
>


 usr/local is typically owned by root so you can do "sudo make install" or
change the install prefix to somewhere you have permission like /home/user/
gromacs