[gmx-users] clarification on configuration error: configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined.

[David van der Spoel]

David Mobley wrote:
> David,
> 
>> > The other possibility is I might be in the wrong branch or
>> > something... I just followed the instructions on the web page:
>> >
>> > cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.gromacs.org:/home/gmx/cvs login
>> > cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.gromacs.org:/home/gmx/cvs co gmx
>> > And then within the gmx directory:
>> > cvs update -A -r release-3-1-patches
>> >
>> > Should that give me the current CVS for 3.3.1? If so, any further
>> > suggestions?
>> no you're checking out the head branch and applying all the 3.3.1
>> patches to it, which will be pretty messy.
>>
>> you want to do
>> co -r release-3-3-patches gmx
> 
> As I pointed out, the instructions I am following come straight from
> the web page (http://www.gromacs.org/gromacs/downloads/cvs-usage.html):
> 
> $>cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.gromacs.org:/home/gmx/cvs login
> Password:
> $>cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.gromacs.org:/home/gmx/cvs co gmx
> 
> This will create a "gmx" subdirectory with all the Gromacs sources. To
> create the configure script files you should now run the "./bootstrap"
> script in the gmx directory. To do this you might need to install or
> upgrade your versions of autoconf and automake to those provided on
> this site. Check the developer tools section in the menu to the left!
> If you don't give any special command you will check of the HEAD
> branch, which is the main development branch, heading for the next
> major Gromacs version. If you only want to check or work with the most
> recent bugfixes in the stable revision tree you should switch 'branch'
> to the patches for the stable version instead. This is easy; just
> write
> 
> $>cvs update -A -r release-3-1-patches
> 
> If the above are incorrect, you should change the web page.
> 
will do. I don't know what the -A flag does...

> I would also note that when I follow this procedure, but replace
> "release-3-1-patches" with "release-3-3-patches", I get something that
> compiles with no problems.
> 
> A further clarification request: does release-3-3-patches get me 3.3, or 
> 3.3.1?
> 

In fact we should call it 3.3.2 beta
Be careful though, we are still ironing out the latest bugs before release.

-- 
David.
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David van der Spoel, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Molecular Biophysics group,
Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University.
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