[MITgcm-devel] MITgcm and Gnu make ("gmake")

[Ed Hill]

Hi folks,

In the past month, our Makefiles (as created by genmake2) have become
more complicated and more tied to the Gnu Make implementation.  I don't
(yet) know why, but the make programs implemented by Sun (eg. "slough"),
SGI (eg. "hopper", "lomax"), and DEC/Compaq used to work well with our
Makefiles.  This is no longer the case.  To get our model to compile on
the above machines, I'm forced to use "gmake".

I think its related to the changes that were made to our Makefiles to
accommodate the Cygwin and MacOS platforms.  If so, we've gained the
ability to build easily on more platforms but have also gained a
dependence on gmake.

So do you folks view this as a bug or a feature?  I think its an
acceptable trade-off.  But perhaps you have a different view?

Ed

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