[gmx-users] Install error for gmx-4.5_beta1

Roland Schulz roland at utk.edu
Sun Aug 1 05:43:01 CEST 2010


Hi,

in general running in parallel (-j) doesn't help for install. I suggest to
use -j only for "make" and not for "make install"

Roland

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to the developers for the release of the 4.5 beta.  Unfortunately,
> I'm having a minor issue getting it to install.  My system is Mac OSX 10.5.8
> (Intel), gcc 4.0.1, fftw 3.0.1.  Installation procedure:
>
> $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gmx_4.5_beta1 --with-gsl
> CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/fftw/include -I/sw/include"
> LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/fftw/lib -L/sw/lib"
>
> $ make -j 2
>
> $ sudo make -j 2 install
>
> Error message:
>
> Making install in gmxdemo
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> test -z "/usr/local/gmx_4.5_beta1/share/gromacs/tutor/gmxdemo" ||
> ../../../config/install-sh -c -d
> "/usr/local/gmx_4.5_beta1/share/gromacs/tutor/gmxdemo"
> test -z "/usr/local/gmx_4.5_beta1/share/gromacs/tutor/gmxdemo" ||
> ../../../config/install-sh -c -d
> "/usr/local/gmx_4.5_beta1/share/gromacs/tutor/gmxdemo"
> mkdir: /usr/local/gmx_4.5_beta1/share/gromacs/tutor/gmxdemo: File exists
> make[4]: *** [install-gmxdemoSCRIPTS] Error 1
> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 cpeptide.pdb
> '/usr/local/gmx_4.5_beta1/share/gromacs/tutor/gmxdemo'
> make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>
>
> The funny part is that if I re-issue the exact same make install command as
> above, the process completes.  Is the issue related to the duplicate "test
> -z" lines shown above?
>
> -Justin
>
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