[MITgcm-support] problem running on OS X

[Chris Hill]

Hi Ed,

 It would be good to keep the recent_checkpoints dir populated with CVS
compatible tar files. 
 Actually I thought we were already doing that. We should make sure its
still happening, several people have had "cvs co" problems with Mac. 

Chris 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org 
> [mailto:mitgcm-support-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 11:35 AM
> To: MITgcm-support
> Subject: RE: [MITgcm-support] problem running on OS X
> 
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 11:08, samar khatiwala wrote:
> > Chris, thanks! That was indeed the problem. But it took me 3 cvs co 
> > attempts to get a fully functional installation.
> > 
> > This appears not to be a problem with cvs on my Mac since I get 
> > similar behavior on a Linux box. For instance 
> 'checkpoint53' would not 
> > appear at the beginning of the output. Even worse, the first time I 
> > checked out
> > c53 (last week) on the Linux machine it would not even 
> compile because 
> > the monitor pkg had not been checked out! Anyway, after several 
> > attempts I now seem to have a full installation on the 
> Linux box too. 
> > Never had such problems before.
> > 
> > I don't really know how cvs works to tell if this is a 
> problem with my 
> > clients or your server. (Would be funny though to get the 
> same problem 
> > on two different platforms.) For instance, when does cvs 
> replace $ tags?
> > Is it done by the server or the clients? For some reason 
> $Name is not 
> > being correctly replaced in eeintro_msg.F.
> 
> 
> Hi Samar,
> 
> This is just a wild guess, but perhaps its a networking 
> problem (timing
> out?) rather than a CVS problem.  We have recently upgraded 
> our CVS server to the latest (in Fedora Core 2) due to CVS 
> security problems. 
> So you might also want to check which CVS versions you are using.
> 
> If it helps, we'll be happy to keep recent checkpoints as 
> .tar.gz files at the location pointed to on our web site:
> 
>   http://mitgcm.org/download/
> 
> so that you can skip the whole CVS download procedure.
> 
> Ed
> 
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