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[Bill Richter <richter AT math.northwestern.edu>]

> Anyway, try passing -no-native-compiler to ./configure.  

Thanks, Jason!  I couldn't find your flag, but maybe this is what you meant, 
and it worked:

make clean
./configure --prefix /home/richter/Coq -natdynlink no
make world
umask 022
make install

> That's a different error message than the one you got before.  Did
> the other one magically disappear?  Or is this a different computer?

It's the same computer, and I didn't notice the difference in error messages, 
other than
make VERBOSE=1
making more noise.  Here's the common error message:

"ocamlopt" -rectypes  -linkall -shared -o 
plugins/syntax/nat_syntax_plugin.cmxs plugins/syntax/nat_syntax_plugin.cmxa
rm -f theories/Init/Datatypes.glob
bin/coqtop.opt -boot   -compile theories/Init/Datatypes -nois
File "/home/richter/coq-8.4pl3/theories/Init/Datatypes.v", line 13, 
characters 0-38:
Error: error loading shared library: 
/home/richter/coq-8.4pl3/plugins/syntax/nat_syntax_plugin.cmxs: cannot 
restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
make[1]: *** [theories/Init/Datatypes.vo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/richter/coq-8.4pl3'
make: *** [world] Error 2

Any ideas about  why "dynamic loading of native code" would give me this 
error?  Let me remind you that I had no such error on another machine running 
SL, a machine with this configure info:

(poisson)coq-8.4pl3> ./configure --prefix /rhome/2/richter/Coq
You have GNU Make 3.81. Good!
You have Objective-Caml 3.12.1. Good!
You have native-code compilation. Good!
LablGtk2 not found: CoqIde will not be available.
hevea was not found; documentation will not be available

  Coq top directory                 : /rhome/2/richter/coq-8.4pl3
  Architecture                      : Linux
  Coq VM bytecode link flags        : -dllib -lcoqrun -dllpath 
'/rhome/2/richter/Coq/lib/coq'
  Coq tools bytecode link flags     : 
  OS dependent libraries            : -cclib -lunix
  Objective-Caml/Camlp4 version     : 3.12.1
  Objective-Caml/Camlp4 binaries in : /rhome/2/richter/HOL-Light/bin
  Objective-Caml library in         : /rhome/2/richter/HOL-Light/lib/ocaml
  Camlp4 library in                 : 
/rhome/2/richter/HOL-Light/lib/ocaml/camlp5
  Native dynamic link support       : true
  Documentation                     : None
  CoqIde                            : no
  Web browser                       : firefox -remote "OpenURL(%s,new-tab)" 
|| firefox %s &
  Coq web site                      : http://coq.inria.fr/

  Paths for true installation:
    binaries      will be copied in /rhome/2/richter/Coq/bin
    library       will be copied in /rhome/2/richter/Coq/lib/coq
    config files  will be copied in /rhome/2/richter/Coq/etc/xdg/coq
    data files    will be copied in /rhome/2/richter/Coq/share/coq
    man pages     will be copied in /rhome/2/richter/Coq/share/man
    documentation will be copied in /rhome/2/richter/Coq/share/doc/coq
    emacs mode    will be copied in /rhome/2/richter/Coq/share/emacs/site-lisp

-- 
Best,
Bill