[gmx-users] path limitations on MacOS X?

[Erik Lindahl]

Hi Jack,

Try to increase the buffer sizes in src/gmxlib/futil.c in the routine  
get_libdir(). If that works I'll just up them to some really big value.  
512 chars was way too conservative (hindsight is 20/20 :-)

Cheers,

Erik



On Aug 8, 2004, at 12:01 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:

>     Has anyone else noticed that on MacOS X 10.3, the gromacs binaries
> like pdb2gmx will segfault if the path becomes too long? This problem
> doesn't seem to occur under Linux. On my machine the path length that
> segfaults pdb2gmx is about...
>
> /opt/ibmcmp/xlf/8.1/bin:/sw/share/xtal/cns_solve_1.1/mac-ppc- 
> darwin_g77/bin:/sw/share/xtal/cns_solve_1.1/mac-ppc-darwin_g77/ 
> utils:.:/usr/local/NMRPipe/nmrbin.mac:/usr/local/NMRPipe/com:/sw/bin:/ 
> sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sw/share/xtal/ 
> ccp4-4.2.2/etc:/sw/share/xtal/ccp4-4.2.2/bin:/sw/share/xtal/ccp4 
> -4.2.2/ccp4i/bin:.:/Applications/sparky.app/Contents/Resources/bin:/ 
> usr/local//bin:/usr/local/NMRPipe/dynamo/tcl:/usr/local/modeller6v2/ 
> bin:/usr/local/autodock/share:/usr/local/autodock/bin
>
> Could this be memory allocation for pointers in gromacs? I say that  
> because
> if I run pdb2gmx from within gdb the segfault doesn't occur. I have  
> been
> told gdb can mask some memory problems.
>                      Jack
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