[MITgcm-devel] genmake2 fails with netcdf on SUN

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:15 -0500, Alistair Adcroft wrote:
> Martin Losch wrote:
> > The probelm can be fixed by specifying MAKE=gmake. What do I have to 
> > conclude? On some Sun-Systems make is f***ed-up and on some others it 
> > isn't? I would be nice, if the makefiles and scripts would be truly 
> > platform independent and that one doesn't have to rely on gmake and gawk 
> > by default! The default make on my system is unfortunately 
> 
> The last I heard on this we had agreed that we would be platform 
> independent. Please correct me if I'm wrong.


Hi Alistair and Martin,

You're close.  The actual policy is:

   "with other makes we abuse you a bit first and then 
    try and fix the problem if we can" [1]


Martin's bug reports are not particularly helpful.  They're full of
rambling complaints but short on detail that I can use to improve
things.  Since I am not allowed to have any access to the Suns that
Martin is using, the best that we can do is:

  1) write custom optfiles for each machine that 
     you (Martin) are using

  2) either:
     a) *VERIFY* that each of those custom optfiles 
        really does exactly what you want, or
     b) write a *precise* bug report saying exactly 
        why its impossible to generate such an optfile

  3) send everything from (2a) and (2b) to me and I'll 
     do my best to improve things (that is, abstract 
     the settings and behavior so that we minimize the 
     need for custom optfiles)

Ed

[1] http://mitgcm.org/pipermail/mitgcm-devel/2004-September/001007.html

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