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

[Chris Hill]

gmake is fine. That's what everybody has.



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> [mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:36 PM
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> Subject: [MITgcm-devel] MITgcm and Gnu make ("gmake")
> 
> 
> 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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