[MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI

[Alistair Adcroft]

Ed,

I'm working down at WHOI and have run into two issues with genmake2 on two
different machines.

1) the bash thing doesn't work. I see the workaround about how to specify
things with -bash but my reservations about using bash and not sh are now
strengthened.
2) we somehow have become dependent on gmake which is simply not good enough
- I don't know why but the SGI make fails where it used to work. We can not
be dependent on gmake extensions because there will be machines on which we
can't install gmake.

It is not good practice to rely on work arounds such as options for
specifying paths on different machines because it means users see different
interfaces on different machines and end up in total confusion.

A.
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