[MITgcm-support] Pb with compilation: make: *** No rule to make target `<built-in>',

[Ed Hill]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:39 -0400, Nicolas Wienders wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> I am just very starting to try using mitgcm,
> these are my first compilations. Everything works
> find when i use an old version that had been installed 
> previously here.
> 
> But i just downloaded the up-to-date "CVS" version,
> and, genmake2, make depend, go well but i can't compile.
> I get for instance this error message: 
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target `<built-in>', needed by
> `chksum_tiled.for'.  Stop.
> 
> One difference i have noted in that in the new version, make depend
> create
> a BUILD_INFO.h, nad it wasn't the case with the older one.
> Besides that i am pretty lost.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help. nicolas


Hi Nicolas,

While you certainly could use an older version of MITgcm we do strongly
suggest that you use the latest from CVS or a recent checkpoint such as:

  http://mitgcm.org/download/MITgcm_checkpoint56.tar.gz

since a lot of bugs have been fixed over the past few months/years.
Also, we are more familiar with the newer code and are thus more likely
to be able to help you.

So, could you please send a little more information about your setup
including:

 - the hardware, OS, and compiler that you're using (eg: 'uname -a') 
 - the exact commands (please copy-and-paste) that you used to try 
     to compile it
 - the exact error (again, please copy-and-paste) message(s) that 
     you got

thanks,
Ed

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