[gmx-users] problem on a G3 (Gromacs 3.1 beta released)

[David van der Spoel]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 nicolis at guideo.fr wrote:

>
>Hello again.
>As I wrote you, I installed the beta 3.1 on a G4 MacOSX with no problem. 
>But now I compiled on a G3 with the same version of MacOSX and I get an 
>"illegal instruction" when running mdrun. I have no error with editconf, 
>pdb2gmx, grompp and g_sas so I guess that this could be an altivec 
>enhanced code problem. I had no such error with the beta prerelease 
>VERSION 3.0.99-20011116 on the G3 nor the G4.
>The illegal instruction message appears just after the number of steps, 
>when the first step should appear. I got the error for both steep and md 
>(did not test the other integrators).
>I tried to recompile with --disable-ppc-altivec but with same result (I 
>noticed however that the -faltivec option is still used after the 
>--disable-ppc-altivec. Is this normal?)

Maybe the configure script generates a compiler flag that is G4 specific. 
Maybe you can check the configure script or Makefiles. I have no such 
machine here to check, but it seems from the configure script that there 
is something like -mcpu=    



>Thank you,
>
>Yiannis
>
>P.S. As for the g_sas, I downloaded the cvs tree and copied the dgsolv.dat in the top directory, g_sas works now, thank you.
>
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Groeten, David.
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