[MITgcm-devel] sun os

[Alistair Adcroft]

Martin,

The error msg would help.

We did discuss this and it was a minor mistake to fix last time (SUFFIX 
order) to recover general make compatibility. We *do* have a policy of 
using the lowest common denominator make and are not adopting gmake as a 
standard but the implementation just isn't in line with our policy.  :-)

A.

Martin Losch wrote:
> My favorite operating system! Yesterday I tried to compile one 
> experiment (basically exp4) on one of our SunOS computers, but it failed 
> at the make-step (both with the default optfile and with sunos_sun4u_f77 
> where MAKE=gmake is specified):
>  >> make
> compiled the c-code and then tried to link, of course it failed, because 
> no fortran source had been compiled.
> I then found out that gmake works. I remember that there was a 
> discussion about that, but what's the status? Is the inapt sun-user 
> (that's me) supposed to know that gmake has to be used instead of make? On
> 
>> http://mitgcm.org/pelican/online_documents/node90.html
> 
> "make" is still the command to use.
> (It was quite embarrassing that after I have been claiming that the 
> MITgcm "compiles and runs everywhere without any problems", it didn't 
> compile and I didn't know why (took me some time to remember gmake)
> 
> Martin
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