I have resolved the problem by taking the advice from Pierrce. Thanks for your help.
Michael On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > > mkdir -p -- /usr/local/share/man/man1 > > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/usr/local/share/man/man1’: Permission > > denied > > make: *** [installdirs] Error 1 > > `make install' attempts to install bash under /usr/local. You don't have > permission to write to /usr/local or one of its subdirectories. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu > http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ >