# Error while making FREEFEM 4.14 on LINUX 20 Machine

**URL:** https://community.freefem.org/t/error-while-making-freefem-4-14-on-linux-20-machine/2950
**Category:** FreeFEM installation
**Created:** [February 8, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/error-while-making-freefem-4-14-on-linux-20-machine/2950 "2024-02-08T22:46:08Z")
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### Author: ![qjlim2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4bbf92/32.png) [@qjlim2](https://community.freefem.org/u/qjlim2)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/error-while-making-freefem-4-14-on-linux-20-machine/2950/1 "2024-02-08T22:46:08Z")

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Hi!  
Currently i am trying to build and compile the latest FREEFEM on my Linux machine.  
However, i am facing fatal error when i am making it with “make -j4”

The error message is as follows:

```auto
depbase=`echo parallelempi.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
/home/lqijian/intel/oneapi/mpi/2021.6.0/bin/mpicxx -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -DPARALLELE -I./../fflib -I./../Graphics -I./../femlib -I./../bamglib/ -I"/home/lqijian/intel/oneapi/mpi/2021.6.0/include" -Xlinker --enable-new-dtags -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker -Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker -Xlinker --enable-new-dtags -I/home/lqijian/intel/oneapi/intelpython/latest/include -I/home/lqijian/FREEFEM/FreeFem-sources-4.14/FREEFEM/ff-petsc/r/include -I/home/lqijian/FREEFEM/FreeFem-sources-4.14/FREEFEM/ff-petsc/c/include -DWITH_bemtool -DWITH_htool -I./../../3rdparty/include/BemTool/ -I./../../3rdparty/boost/include -I../../plugin/mpi -DPARALLELE -DHAVE_ZLIB -g -DNDEBUG -O3 -mmmx -mavx2 -mavx -msse4.2 -msse2 -msse -std=gnu++14 -DBAMG_LONG_LONG -DNCHECKPTR -fPIC -MT parallelempi.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o parallelempi.o parallelempi.cpp &&\
mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
../../config.status --file=ff-mpirun:ff-mpirun.in
g++: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-rpath’
make[3]: *** [Makefile:710: ffapi.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
g++: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-rpath’
g++: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-rpath’
make[3]: *** [Makefile:710: parallelempi.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [Makefile:710: compositeFESpace.o] Error 1
config.status: creating ff-mpirun
chmod a+x ff-mpirun
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/lqijian/FREEFEM/FreeFem-sources-4.14/src/mpi'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:554: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/lqijian/FREEFEM/FreeFem-sources-4.14/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:809: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/lqijian/FREEFEM/FreeFem-sources-4.14'
make: *** [Makefile:759: all] Error 2

```

Can anyone advise me on how to fix this issue? Thanks!

Context:  
I have followed the installation steps till " Build your **FreeFEM** library and executable" in [Installation guide](https://doc.freefem.org/introduction/installation.html)