[MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI

[Patrick Heimbach]

Hi there,

I've been working on GFDL's SGI for a while.
Noticed the problems your refer to as well,
but simply invoking genmake2 via
/bin/sh genmake2 ...
works very well, as does gmake.

Cheers
-p.



Quoting Chris Hill <cnh at MIT.EDU>:

> A.,
> 
>  I think its reasonable to expect gmake everywhere. That is the assumption
> that is even made at GFDL these days. make is really really variable on
> different platforms and gmake is easily available for everryone on every
> platform as far as I know.
> 
> Chris
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> > [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Alistair Adcroft
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:33 PM
> > To: MITgcm-devel at mitgcm.org
> > Subject: [MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI
> > 
> > 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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