[MITgcm-support] genmake2 problem on alpha

[chris hill]

Hi Jeff,

 What you are seeing does sound unusual.

 Is there any chance you could get an "mitgcm" account created on your
Alpha so we can log in and take a look. One possibility is that the
default stacksize for the shell is very small so that when it tries to
do anything (like a test compile of the code fragment it is trying) the
shell segfaults.

Thanks,

Chris
 
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 22:05, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 18:43, jeff polton wrote:
> > Ed, I still get errors with the new checkpoint55 files. The error is 
> > particularly odd.
> > 
> >  >../../../tools/genmake2 -mods=../code 
> > -of=/due3/jeff/safe/osf1_alpha_f90
> > blah blah ....
> >    Searching for *OPTIONS.h files in order to warn about the presence
> >      of "#define "-type statements that are no longer allowed:
> >      found CPP_EEOPTIONS="../../../eesupp/inc/CPP_EEOPTIONS.h"
> >      found CPP_OPTIONS="../../../model/inc/CPP_OPTIONS.h"
> > Segmentation fault
> > 
> > I've tracked down the error to the test_for_package_in_cpp_options 
> > function, which calls the     test_for_string_in_file subfunction 4 
> > times. Regardless of the order of these 4     test_for_string_in_file 
> > subfunctions, test_for_package_in_cpp_options fails after completing 
> > the 2, of 4, subfunctions without even entering the 3 calling of the 
> > test_for_string_in_file subfunction.
> > 
> > I don't understand that.
> > Any ideas gratefully received.
> 
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> So now genmake2 is producing a seg fault?  Wow.  Thats clearly a bug in
> the interpreter since no shell code should ever seg fault.  Just out of
> curiosity, could you please report which shell its running under?
> 
> I know that genmake2 works on other alpha systems since I routinely use
> it on the Halem alpha cluster at gsfc.nasa.gov.  Please install the Gnu
> bash shell:
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html
> 
> using
> 
>   $ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-2.05b.tar.gz
>   $ tar -xzf bash-2.05b.tar.gz
>   $ cd bash-2.05b
>   $ ./configure
>   $ make
>   # make install
> 
> and that will (in all likelihood) fix your problem.
> 
> Alternatively, you may be able to find pre-compiled bash or Bourne shell
> binaries for your alpha and these might be easier to install.  I'm not
> used to admin-ing alphas so I don't know where to find binary archives
> but they probably do exist.
> 
> Good luck!
> Ed
> 
> ps - If you don't have root permissions for a system-wide install, you 
>   can install bash locally with:
> 
>   $ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-2.05b.tar.gz
>   $ tar -xzf bash-2.05b.tar.gz
>   $ cd bash-2.05b
>   $ ./configure -prefix=/your/home/dir
>   $ make
>   # make install
>