[MITgcm-support] MITgcm on Cygwin and MacOS X

[samar khatiwala]

Ed et al

Could you (or someone else) explain the rationale behind explicitly
calling cpp? All compilers I am aware of call cpp before parsing the
code. What is so special about compiling this code that makes this
necessary?

Most recently I have been running the MIT model on an a G5 XServe with the
IBM xlf compiler. xlf (possibly even pgf) gives you the option of saving
the "small f" file it creates after running cpp. Optionally, it will also
preppend a "F" before the file name so it does not matter whether you
have HFS or UFS.

There are good reasons to stick with HFS+. Unlike UFS it is journaled and
with some (minor) effort it too can be made case sensitive.

Samar

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