[gmx-users] strange behavior upon compiling 4.0.4

[David van der Spoel]

Ken Rotondi wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to help a student build gromacs_4.0.4 on a MacBook Pro 
> running 10.5. The program configures with out a hitch, but compiling 
> with the make command ends in a recursive error. It seems that it's not 
> finding something that it should have installed itself, but I wouldn't 
> be surprised if I was wrong.
> 
> Any ideas?

Could be because there is a space in a directory name.


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> 
> mkdir .libs
> rm -fr .libs/libnonbonded.lax
> mkdir .libs/libnonbonded.lax
> rm -fr .libs/libnonbonded.lax/libnb_kernel_ia32_sse.a
> mkdir .libs/libnonbonded.lax/libnb_kernel_ia32_sse.a
> Extracting /Users/jkoelmel/Desktop/college and IB/college/current
> classes/BioChem/GROMACS/gromacs-4.0.4/src/gmxlib/nonbonded/nb_kernel_ia32_sse/.libs/libnb_kernel_ia32_sse.a 
> 
> (cd .libs/libnonbonded.lax/libnb_kernel_ia32_sse.a && ar x
> /Users/jkoelmel/Desktop/college and IB/college/current
> classes/BioChem/GROMACS/gromacs-4.0.4/src/gmxlib/nonbonded/nb_kernel_ia32_sse/.libs/libnb_kernel_ia32_sse.a) 
> 
> ar: /Users/jkoelmel/Desktop/college: No such file or directory
> make[5]: *** [libnonbonded.la] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> 
> Dr. KS Rotondi
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