Benhour, `make run` gives me:
Scanning dependencies of target step-42 [ 33%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/step-42.dir/step-42.cc.o [ 66%] Linking CXX executable step-42 [ 66%] Built target step-42 Scanning dependencies of target run [100%] Run step-42 with Debug configuration *** Call this program as <./step-42 input.prm> CMakeFiles/run.dir/build.make:57: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/run' failed make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/run] Error 1 CMakeFiles/Makefile2:259: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/run.dir/all' failed make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/run.dir/all] Error 2 CMakeFiles/Makefile2:266: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/run.dir/rule' failed make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/run.dir/rule] Error 2 Makefile:196: recipe for target 'run' failed make: *** [run] Error 2 which is at least similar to what you are observing. The relevant line here is: *** Call this program as <./step-42 input.prm> Is it possible that you just tried to call `make run` instead of `make` and `./step-42 p1_adaptive.prm`? Note that there are multiple parameter files: p1_adaptive.prm p1_chinese.prm p1_global.prm p2_adaptive.prm p2_global.prm Best, Daniel -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.