Can temporary files be put in a private directory so that multiple reconfigures can be run simultaneously? I think the rest of configure works. ******************************************************************************* UNABLE to EXECUTE BINARIES for ./configure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/jed/petsc/src/sys/viewer/interface/f90module.f90' ******************************************************************************* File "/home/jed/petsc/config/configure.py", line 272, in petsc_configure framework.configure(out = sys.stdout) File "/home/jed/petsc/config/BuildSystem/config/framework.py", line 922, in configure child.configure() File "/home/jed/petsc/config/PETSc/packages/sowing.py", line 123, in configure self.buildFortranStubs() File "/home/jed/petsc/config/PETSc/packages/sowing.py", line 83, in buildFortranStubs generatefortranstubs.main(self.petscdir.dir, self.bfort, self.petscdir.dir) File "/home/jed/petsc/bin/maint/generatefortranstubs.py", line 196, in main os.path.walk(dir, processDir, [petscdir, bfort]) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 237, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 237, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 237, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 237, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 229, in walk func(arg, top, names) File "/home/jed/petsc/bin/maint/generatefortranstubs.py", line 161, in processDir FixDir(petscdir,outdir) File "/home/jed/petsc/bin/maint/generatefortranstubs.py", line 123, in FixDir