Compile error message ...

[Miquel_A]

I am running the latest version of the intel compilers, i.e., fortran and c, on Lion with Xcode 4.1 build 4B110.

When I try to compile under a standarduser account, I get the following message, with or without time machine on:

Desktop$ ifort test.f90 -o try

2011-08-11 15:20:02.927 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.928 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.929 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.930 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.930 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.931 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.931 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.932 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.933 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.934 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.934 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.935 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.936 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.937 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

2011-08-11 15:20:02.937 ifort[1811:60b] This process is attempting to exclude an item from Time Machine by path without administrator privileges. This is not supported.

If I compile while on the admin account, I do not see those messages. Giving admin privileges to the standard user account does not solve the issue. Any suggestions?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

This was also reported here. We're investigating. One suggestion has been to invoke ifort once using sudo - does that fix the problem for you?

[Miquel_A]

Thank you, Steve! Your suggestion fixed the problem.

For those of you who might want additional info, here are the steps I took:

1. Give admin privileges to the standard user account.

2. Restart the computer

3. issue "sudo ifort test.f90 -o test" from terminal. No funny messages were observed

4. ./test (to confirm it does what is supposed to)

5. rm test

6. Exit terminal

7. Remove admin privileges to the account

8. Restart

9. Ready to go!

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Thanks for the confirmation.

[Benjamin_Karl_B_]

This solution also works for me.

[Ehsan_Moravveji]

Thanks Steve for the instructions.
I have the same problem with ifort on Lion 10.7.
My user is the admin user, and in the terminal, when I compile a sample F90 code as super-user, I have no problem. The only problem is when I try to compile without sudo.
Any suggestion is appreciated.

Ehsan.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Does compiling once using sudo not make the problem go away? I have asked the developer if there is any progress resolving this.

[Ehsan_Moravveji]

Thanks Steve,
Yes, it is solved following your suggestion.
I first remove the previous version completely, and reinstalled. This time, I did not integrate ifort into Xcode. This could be one reason why the problem used to persist before.
Then compiled with sudo and it did not give error. Next time, for my standard user, it also behaved smoothly.
No bites :p

Best wishes.
Ehsan.

[Debanjan_Mukherjee]

So does this mean that every time I start my computer, open the terminal and run ifort - I first have to do a 'sudo ifort ....' compilation, and then it will work fine throughout ?

[Debanjan_Mukherjee]

Apologies for forgetting to contribute on the status of the solution - I did sudo ifort once, and it worked thereafter throughout. I was just curious if it would remain the same once I shut it down and boot it up again.

Maybe someone can write a small shell script that just does a sudo ifort run on a test file - generates the object file - and then removes the object and test file from the directory. Let me see if I can get that to work. Then it would be possible to run the script at the startup everytime, and ifort would work always.

[Jeffrey_A_Intel]

The fix for this problem should be available in the next update to the 12.1 compilers which is currently scheduled for February 2012.

[pbro1]

Confirming: Fixed in 12.1.4 20120423 (Update 10).