problem installing kaldi; tools openfst failed to create symbolic link ‘openfst’: Read-only file system

[Ali]

Hi,

I was trying to complete the installation of kaldi from /INSTALL-kladi/tools. when I run "make" it gives me the following error:
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rm -f openfst
ln -s openfst-1.3.4 openfst
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘openfst’: Read-only file system
make: [openfst] Error 1 (ignored)

Please help me on how I could solve this. It seems correct configuration of openfst is critical for the next stage in installation of kaldi (following the guide in INSTALL-kaldi/src)

Thank you so much.

[Daniel Povey]

I think what is happening is that you are on a file system that's
exported from some kind of Windows box and it doesn't properly support
soft links. Or maybe it does support them but only under certain
strange conditions.
I'd talk to your local administrator, if you have one.
You won't be able to run Kaldi on a file system that doesn't support soft links.
Dan

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[Ali]

Thank you Dan for your helpful comment.

Indeed that was the problem. My VM guest is ubuntu 14 and the host is windows. I was able to solve the soft link problem, following the instructions here:

http://www.ahtik.com/blog/fixing-your-virtualbox-shared-folder-symlink-error/


Bests,
Ali