Okay, I found the error. Some time back, I noted changing include/deal.II/base/config.h.in to include/deal.II/base/config.h (removed the .in). I don't remember exactly, but the reason I did this was because some error popped up while compiling one of the initial tutorials. This was my mistake.
The complete error message of cmake (on the terminal) mentions that config.h.in file is missing. So now, I made a copy and, the configuration and installation went fine. However, make test for p4est failed with the following message There are not enough slots available in the system to satisfy the 10 slots that were requested by the application: ./p4est.debug Either request fewer slots for your application, or make more slots available for use. It is true that my PC has only 4 slots (8 with hyper threading). So can I ignore this error? -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/418ae277-bf9d-4b83-b987-a03a3d48a4be%40googlegroups.com.