[gmx-users] installation of gromacs

[Dommert Florian]

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 10:44 +0100, Thomas Koller wrote: 
> Hi Nuno,
> 
> I have still problems with the insatllation of the 4.0.7 version.
> 
> After unpacking of fftw and gromacs, I did:
> 
> In the fftw folder:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/fftw3 --enable-sse --enable-shared --enable-float
> make -j
> make install
> export CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/local/fftw3/include"
> export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/local/fftw3/lib"
> 
> In the gromacs-4.0.7 folder:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/gromacs --enable-shared
> 
> At the end I get:
> 
> checking for void*... yes
> checking size of void*... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (void*)
> 
> What does that mean? Why is this not working?
> 

This means that the compiler does not work properly. I also encountered
this error some time ago, but I can not remember, what the reason
exactly was. However I would always go for the latest release and
preferably fetch the release branch (check the website for a How To)

Cheers,

Flo

> Regards,
> Thomas
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