[MITgcm-support] question about testscript

[Chris Hill]

Martin (and Ed),

 Looks like we need do Mac/Darwin testing here too. If you can survive
for another few days that should start happening. Dan Enderton (a
student here) has just got himself a Mac laptop and will start using the
model. He has some midterm exams this week, so it seems unfair to bug
him too much this week. However, after that I think we can work with him
to make sure we can do Darwin/Mac tests here. 

 Either that or I'll have to buy me or Ed one of those fancy Macs. 

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> [mailto:mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 7:21 AM
> To: MITgcm-support
> Subject: Re: [MITgcm-support] question about testscript
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 03:43, Martin Losch wrote:
> > Ed,
> > 
> > After runing testreport successfully, I reran it with: testreport 
> > -opfile=../tools/build_options/darwin_g77 -ieee -q -a 
> > edhill at mitgcm.org but the mpack utility fails:
> > > Warning: "../tools/mpack-1.6/mpack" failed -- please contact
> > > <edhill at mitgcm.org>
> > so that you probably didn't get any email from me. Is the -q option
> > forbidden in conjunction with -a?
> 
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I just tried the following:
> 
>   ./testreport -ieee
>   ./testreport -q -ieee -a edhill at mitgcm.org
> 
> on a RH 9 box and it worked fine.  I'll be happy to try it with some
> other systems, but I think its something specific to OSX.  The mpack
> utility has worked with no problems on every Unix/Linux variant that
> I've run it on.  But there may be something special about 
> your box -- or
> it may be some firewall issue.
> 
> Also, I'm surprised that you have to manually set the "optfile".  Have
> you tried the auto-detect feature?  And, if it fails, have you tried
> setting the following:
> 
>   (t)csh:   setenv MITGCM_OF "path/to/opt_file"
>   bash/sh:  export MITGCM_OF="path/to/opt_file"
> 
> environment variable?  I'd really like to get the default 
> optfile choice
> mechanism sorted out as its a useful feature.
> 
> Ed
> 
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