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

[Erik Lindahl]

David van der Spoel wrote:

> 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.
> >

Hi,

I'll have a look at it - most probably I just inserted a typo somewhere in the configuration script. It does indeed sound as an
altivec problem. Could you send me the files config.log and src/config.h ?

Cheers,

Erik