[ESPResSo-devel] Compiling ESPResSo

[Mingyang Hu]

Dear all,

I was trying the new build system of ESPResSo on our cluster. Two errors occurred. 

Firstly, I run bootstrap.sh in order to get the configure script. But I receive the following error message:

autoreconf: Entering directory `.'

autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext

autoreconf: running: aclocal -Iconfig

aclocal: unrecognized option -- `-Iconfig'

Try `aclocal --help' for more information.

autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

Our cluster has an older version of aclocal (1.9.6). When I tried with my desktop, which has aclocal of version 1.10.1, everything works fine. I think it has to do with this line in Makefile.am:

ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -Iconfig

After I added an extra space between I and config, I got the configure script with our cluster. So I'm assuming this is kind of parsing problem with older version of aclocal. 

Secondly, after configuring ESPResSo, following error appeared during "make":

for file in init.tcl ABHmath.tcl auxiliary.tcl blockfile_support.tcl bundle.tcl countBonds.tcl pdb.tcl polymer.tcl statistics.tcl vtf.tcl tclline.tcl parallel_tempering.tcl; do \

  if test ! -e $file || test ! $file -ef /$file; then \

    /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 /$file ; \

  fi; \

done

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/init.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/ABHmath.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/auxiliary.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/blockfile_support.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/bundle.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/countBonds.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/pdb.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/polymer.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/statistics.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/vtf.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/tclline.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

/usr/bin/install: missing destination file operand after `/parallel_tempering.tcl'

Try `/usr/bin/install --help' for more information.

make[1]: *** [all] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/mingyang/tmp/espresso-hogwartz/scripts'

make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Despite of this error, there is Espresso executable in the directory. After ESPRESSO_SCRIPTS variable has been manually defined, Espresso executable CAN be started. I wonder if this is supposed to happen.

Best,

Mingyang

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Mingyang Hu

Department of Physics

Carnegie Mellon University