[SciPy-dev] error: /tmp/__dummy.f: Permission denied

[Pearu Peterson]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Nils Wagner wrote:

> running find_fortran_compiler 
> error: /tmp/__dummy.f: Permission denied 
>  
> Any idea ? 

Check your permissions to /tmp. Or may be there exists /tmp/__dummy.f
already, created by root or another user, but you don't have
permissions to overwrite it. Or... there are number of other possible
reasons to see this message and that probably are not related to scipy at
all.

Pearu