[gmx-developers] Error Gromacs Install from Git and gromacs tar

[David van der Spoel]

Rodrigo faccioli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've tried to install the Gromacs from git repository. For this, I read 
> http://www.gromacs.org/Developers/Git/Git_Tutorial . In this way, I 
> executed the commands: git clone --mirror git://git.gromacs.org/gromacs 
> and git clone git://git.gromacs.org/gromacs
> 
> After that, I read quick and dirty installation in 
> http://oldwiki.gromacs.org/index.php/quick_and_dirty_installation. I 
> downloaded all programs which are listed there, except Gromacs because I 
> got it from git repository :). The other change that I made was: I 
> change the NCPU value for 2.
> 
> I executed the commands which are shown for bash box. Moreover, when I 
> execute the command ./configure --prefix=$SOFT --enable-mpi --with-gsl, 
> I receive the error message: checking size of int... configure: error: 
> cannot compute sizeof (int)
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> I opened the config.log file and its last line shows configure: exit 77
> 
> After this error, I downloaded the others Gromacs versions (4.05 and 
> 4.0.4) from 
> http://www.gromacs.org/index.php?title=Download_%26_Installation. 
> Moreover, these versions show the same error.
> 
> So, I tried to understand where can be my error. When I remove the 
> --enable-mpi option from configure command above, the command works fine.
> 
> My doubt is what I made wrong. Unfortunately, I can't understand.
> 
> My Operation System is Ubuntu 9.04 and I'm running on laptop Dell XPS.
>  
> I thank any help and sorry if my question is so obvious and my English 
> mistakes.

Hi Rodrigo,

do you have mpi installed?
Check the config.log, it looks like an MPI problem.

With the git sources you need to start by typing
./bootstrap

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