On 23 Nov 2021, at 21:29, Satish Balay via petsc-dev <[email protected]> wrote:

perhaps "dtruss -f" ?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1925978/equivalent-of-strace-feopen-comm...

balay@ypro petsc % dtruss -f ./configure dtrace: system integrity protection is on, some features will not be available dtrace: failed to initialize dtrace: DTrace requires additional privileges

Yeah, you need boot into recovery mode (holding Command-R on startup) and turn off the SIP: csrutil enable --without dtrace Remind me why we use apple hardware again? Lawrence