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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada download
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On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:54:52 -0800, sophia.adampour wrote:

In the middle of that log output I'm seeing

> mkdir -p "/usr/local/gnat2017"
> mkdir: /usr/local/gnat2017: Permission denied make: [mkdirs] Error 1
> (ignored)

As subsequent errors refer to a missing directory e.g.
/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /usr/local/gnat2017: No such file or directory

there would appear to be a permissions problem with the mkdir command. 

Do you need to be superuser to perform this install? I'm no Apple expert 
so I'd have to stop there.

-- Brian