[MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI

[Chris Hill]

Isn't the common command

 /bin/sh genmake2



 

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> [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Alistair Adcroft
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:21 PM
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> Subject: RE: [MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI
> 
> The cmd Patrick says does work but it defeats the objective 
> of having a common interface.
> 
> Gmake is not available everywhere which is why I'm running up 
> against this problem.
> 
> A.
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> Dr Alistair Adcroft            http://www.mit.edu/~adcroft
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> [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Chris Hill
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:17 PM
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> Subject: RE: [MITgcm-devel] Genmake2 on SGI
> 
> 
> P.S. Does the command Patrick sent work for you? 
> 
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> > [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of 
> Alistair Adcroft
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 2:10 PM
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> > 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
> > EAPS 54-1624,  77 Massachusetts Ave,  Cambridge,  MA,  USA
> > 
> > -----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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