Interesting. both of you have same error but different OS' although both Linux’s.
I just downloaded latest, i.e. svn 1445, using git and ./configure gives me the same error. (my earlier experiments were with svn 1440 and all was OK.) What did you use to download - svn? or tarball? or git? config.status: executing libtool commands configure: creating buildtag.hh... *** current directory is not an SVN checkout: keeping old buildtag readlink: illegal option -- f usage: readlink [-n] [file ...] configure: top-level apl directory is: configure: creating /makefile.h ... cp: ../../../../makefile.h: Permission denied configure: creating /configure_args.cc ./configure: line 22972: ../../../../configure_args.cc: Permission denied configure: saving configure options in ../../../../configure_options ./configure: line 22991: ../../../../configure_options: Permission denied > On Mar 26, 2021, at 9:12 PM, Blake McBride <blake1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am running 64-bit LinuxMint 19.3. I am getting an error on ./configure as > follows: > > # rm -rf * > # svn update > # ./configure > [...] > config.status: creating wslib3/Makefile > config.status: creating wslib4/Makefile > config.status: creating wslib5/Makefile > config.status: creating wslib5/APLComponentFiles/Makefile > config.status: creating wslib5/iso-apl-cf/Makefile > config.status: creating config.h > config.status: executing depfiles commands > config.status: executing libtool commands > > configure: creating buildtag.hh... > svn: E155007: '/src/Archive.cc' is not a working copy > configure: top-level apl directory is: / > configure: creating //makefile.h ... > cp: cannot create regular file '../../../../makefile.h': Permission denied > configure: creating //configure_args.cc > ./configure: line 22972: ../../../../configure_args.cc: Permission denied > > configure: saving configure options in ../../../../configure_options > ./configure: line 22991: ../../../../configure_options: Permission denied > # > > Thanks! > > Blake McBride >