[MITgcm-support] genmake2: going with the flow

Jean-Michel Campin jmc at ocean.mit.edu
Wed Sep 24 09:29:24 EDT 2003


Hi, 

I am a little bit confused:

>> 3. Apparently there no more .genmakerc. That's too bad, will that
>> possibility be put back into genmake2?
>
> OK, I'll add this to the documentation.  The new "optfiles" are
> intended
> to replace the old .genmakerc files.  And the optfiles given in
> $ROOTDIR/tools/build_options/ are intended primarily as "good starting
> points", not necessarily the best for your particular platform.

I was thinking that .genmakerc has been replaced by "gm_local"
and that the optfile was mainly for thinds that are machine dependent
but not so much set-up dependent.

May by can add a line or 2 about gm_local in the HOWTO document
(or it's already there ?) ?

Jean-Michel



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