Building Paraview "from scratch" in order to use a custom plugin

I just tried using superbuild to get osmesa, and I can’t find my way around this error

[ 92%] Performing configure step for 'osmesa'
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
/usr/bin/libtoolize: line 1284: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `bin'.
libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh' to `bin/'
/usr/bin/libtoolize: line 1284: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `m4/'
/usr/bin/libtoolize: line 1284: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied
libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4' to `m4/'
/usr/bin/libtoolize: line 1284: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied
libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4' to `m4/'
/usr/bin/libtoolize: line 1284: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied
libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4' to `m4/'
/usr/bin/libtoolize: line 1284: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied
libtoolize: can not copy `/usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4' to `m4/'
autoreconf: libtoolize failed with exit status: 1
CMake Error at /home/npillai2/custom_software/superbuild_paraview_5.8.0_gcc/build/superbuild/sb-osmesa-configure.cmake:47 (message):
  Failed with exit code 1

If I do

cmake -make \
 -DAC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR=/usr/local/usrapps/iabolotn/superbuild_paraview_5.8.0_gcc/build/local_bin \
 -DAC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR=/usr/local/usrapps/iabolotn/superbuild_paraview_5.8.0_gcc/build/m4 \
 ../paraview-superbuild

The variables don’t get accepted.

CMake Warning:
  Manually-specified variables were not used by the project:

    AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
    AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

Plus I think the issue is at

/usr/bin/libtoolize: line 1284: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied

which is before the other variables come into play. Has anyone seen these errors before?