[MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI

[Alistair Adcroft]

We were able to work fine using the minimal overlap between different make's
before so why not now?

A.
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Dr Alistair Adcroft            http://www.mit.edu/~adcroft
MIT Climate Modeling Initiative        tel: (617) 253-5938
EAPS 54-1624,  77 Massachusetts Ave,  Cambridge,  MA,  USA

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[mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:39 PM
To: MITgcm-devel at mitgcm.org
Subject: RE: [MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI


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-----
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> [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.
> --
> Dr Alistair Adcroft            http://www.mit.edu/~adcroft
> MIT Climate Modeling Initiative        tel: (617) 253-5938
> EAPS 54-1624,  77 Massachusetts Ave,  Cambridge,  MA,  USA
> 
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