[gmx-developers] Developing GROMACS on Mac OSX question

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Fri Nov 7 19:45:15 CET 2014


On 2014-11-07 18:35, Mark Abraham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The latest valgrind (3.10) is needed on recent Mac OS, which was an
> issue we have solved for the Mac build slave. See also
> http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.news.html. No idea if gdb has
> proper support, but with Apple having moved away from gcc some time ago,
> one could expect free software tools to get progressively less love on
> that platform. Apple's done a lot of the work to get OpenMP into clang,
> but it's still living in a forked branch...
Thanks for that!

In fact I now found out that the apple debugger lldb works with the 
latest gcc from macports. So back to coding.

>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:43 PM, David van der Spoel
> <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     OSX used to be a decent development platform but these days
>     (Mavericks and up) neither valgrind or gdb works for me, using
>     gcc-mp-4.9 from MacPorts and ggdb from MacPorts. Any of you got
>     either of these working?
>
>     Cheers,
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Dept. of Cell & Molec. Biol., Uppsala University.
Box 596, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden. Phone:	+46184714205.
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