[MITgcm-devel] makedepend, again

[Martin Losch]

Ed,
are you sure that look_for_makedepend in genmake2 work properly?
when I run genmake2 on our opteron cluster (with linux_amd64_pgf77_ocl) 
for the first time, I get this message:
a system-default makedepend was not found.
WARNING: unable to build cyrus-imapd-makedepend
and I end up with xmakedepend in my Makefile 
(MAKEDEPEND=${TOOLS}/xmakdepend).
Then  I run "make makefile", I don't get these messages again and I 
have MAKEDEPEND=makedepend in Makefile.

This is what happens:
the first time around look_for_makedepend looks for makedepend:
which makedepend > /dev/null 2>&1 (and finds /usr/bin/X11/makedepend, I 
checked that)
then it creates a little program genmake_tc.f and runs makedepend on 
it, but this is not successful:
makedepend: error: [mM]akefile is not present
and then it fails to build the cyrus-imapd-makedepend for whatever 
reason and then it substitutes xmakedepend
the second time aroung (with make makefile) there is a Makefile present 
and all tests with the systemwide default pass.

I know now how to deal with this, but can genmake2 be generalized to 
get rid off this problem?

Martin

PS. as usual I cannot give an account on this machine )o: