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# Building Software
While it is possible to do short compilations on the login nodes, it is generally considered good
practice to use a job for that, especially when using many parallel make processes. Since 2016,
practice to use a job for that, especially when using many parallel make processes. Since 2016,
the `/projects` filesystem is mounted read-only on all compute
nodes in order to prevent users from doing large I/O there (which is what the `/scratch` is for).
In consequence, you cannot compile in `/projects` within a job. If you wish to install
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