[MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI

[Chris Hill]

If that's needed we could do that. But my sense was that it was making our
life harder for no need i.e. everybody has gmake. Are there any machines
without gmake?

Chris 

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> [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Alistair Adcroft
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:10 PM
> To: MITgcm-devel at mitgcm.org
> Subject: RE: [MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI
> 
> We were able to work fine using the minimal overlap between 
> different make's before so why not now?
> 
> A.
> --
> Dr Alistair Adcroft            http://www.mit.edu/~adcroft
> MIT Climate Modeling Initiative        tel: (617) 253-5938
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> -----Original Message-----
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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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