[MITgcm-devel] testreport on sunos

[Martin Losch]

Me again,

I actually found someone with "awk"-skills and we figured that the  
correct syntax would be this:
> tst=`echo $sVar $listVar | awk '{ for(i=2;i<=NF;i++){if($i==$1);t+= 
> $1}; print t }'`
on the command line this give the same result, but within testreport  
it causes this problem:
> ==> WARNING: selected var >PS< not found
> ==> WARNING: in checked list: PS Tmn Tmx Tav Tsd Smn Smx Sav Ssd  
> Umn Umx Uav Usd Vmn Vmx Vav Vsd pt1mn pt1mx pt1av pt1sd pt2mn pt2mx  
> pt2av pt2sd pt3mn pt3mx pt3av pt3sd pt4mn pt4mx pt4av pt4sd pt5mn  
> pt5mx pt5av pt5sd


Maybe you can help?

Martin

On 25 Jun 2008, at 09:12, Martin Losch wrote:

> Hallo Jean-Michel,
>
> there is a small problem with testreport on SunOS (rays1); and as  
> usual the problem boils down to "awk". Obviously "awk" on linux  
> systems is real "gawk". "gawk" has more features than awk and we  
> are gettting so used to (g)awk that that we don't realize it's the  
> "wrong" awk. Anyway, the SunOS-awk returns an error in line 229:
> tst=`echo $sVar $listVar | awk '{ for(i=2;i<=NF;i++){t+=($i==$1)};  
> print t }'`
> and more specifically it is this part: ($i==$1) that awk does not  
> recognize (gawk does, even on SunOS). What can we do?
> 1. Replace awk with gawk in this line? I am not sure that gawk is  
> available on all systems.
> 2. replace all "awk"s with $AWK and set this or pass this as an  
> argument?
> 3. I like best: find a syntax that SunOS awk can handle. I don't  
> know what this line really does, and in particular, what t+=($i== 
> $1) is supposed to do, but maybe there is a better way of doing  
> this (with sed, which is more universal, as far as I remember from  
> our problems with genmake2 years ago). Do you still have access to  
> a Sun? If not, can you describe what this thing is supposed to do  
> and I'll try to figure out how to do it on a Sun.
>
> I believe there are still users on SunOS (there were some emails,  
> recently), and this problem is likely to occur on other systems  
> that do not run Linux (e.g. SX8, or IBM, ...)
>
> Martin
>
> PS. I don't think that this thing actually causes problems with  
> testreport in my case (somehow emails don't get sent to  
> jmc at mitgcm.org since last week), but it's still worth fixing.
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