[gmx-users] source

[Choon Peng]

Hi Bo Yang,

  I think what Oli meant is that the source directory (what you get after
you unpack the file download from GROMACS website) contains C programs that
you compile when you run 'make'. The generated executables are stored under
the source directory and copied to the destination (usually
/usr/local/gromacs) when you run 'make install'.

You can specify the destination using "--prefix=/usr/local/gromacs",
though I would expect that to be the default location.
Usually we separate source directories and installed software directories,
which contains the compiled codes and libraries.

regards,
Choon-Peng

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On 11/22/04 10:31 AM, "Bo Yang" <n62star at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello, Oli:
> 
> Thank you very much for your suggestion.
> 
> I compiled in /Users/bo/gromacs-3.2.1/, and didn't do
> anything about 'source'. As you suggested, 'source'
> and 'installed software' are two completely different
> things. Could you give a  bit more details about
> 'source'? Is it a part of Mac C? If not, where can I
> search for it? And I don't have 'Development' under my
> local directory. If I put it under /Users/bo/gromacs,
> should it be fine? Further more, when I find the
> 'source', should I copy and paste it into my local
> directory, or just move the whole files?
> 
> All the bests
> 
> Bo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:36:20 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Oliver Beckstein <oliver at biop.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Gromacs-3.2.1-install: errors
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> Hi Bo,
> 
> do you happen to compile in /Users/bo/gromacs-3.2.1/,
> ie is the source
> also in this directory? Because then the installation
> procedure would 
> try
> to overwrite the files in share/top.
> 
> Put the sources in eg
> /Users/bo/Development/gromacs-3.2.1 and then
> re-run
> your configure --prefix=/Users/bo/gromacs-3.2.1 ...,
> make, make install
> 
> Sources and installed software are two completely
> different things.
> 
> hth
> oli
> 
> 
> 
> 
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