[gmx-users] still some problems with HP-UX... grompp acting weird

[Christopher Daub]

Hey again!

The install of gromacs 3.3.3 on HP-UX is mostly working fine, but I'm  
getting some weird behaviour from grompp where it doesn't set the  
output filename correctly.  Here is the grompp output from when I run  
the demo program, for example (the demo works fine until it gets to  
this step, after pdb2gmx and genbox):

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
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checking input for internal consistency...
sh: /grace/bin/: Cannot create the specified file.
Cleaning up temporary file gromppa11751

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Program grompp, VERSION 3.3.3
Source code file: topio.c, line: 312

Fatal error:
Could not open /grace/bin/
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creating statusfile for 1 node...
calling /usr/bin/cpp...
cpp exit code: 256
Tried to execute: '/usr/local/bin/cpp  -I/home/snoop/gmacs/share/ 
gromacs/top -DFLEX_SP
C cpeptide.top > /grace/bin/'
The '/usr/bin/cpp' command is defined in the .mdp file
processing topology...

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I think it's getting the /grace/bin thing from my PATH variable of  
all things! Why it sticks it in there as the output filename is  
beyond me.  I've looked at grompp.c and topio.c to see if I can find  
the problem, but my C coding skills are not great and I'm not sure  
what to do with all those pointers... can anyone suggest an easy fix  
for this? I tried an ugly hack to set outfile = "cppoutput" in  
topio.c, but that didn't work...

Thanks for any suggestions (other than getting rid of HP-UX...),
Chris.