[gmx-users] fftw3f errors despite having the right libraries in the right places installation on MAC

maria goranovic mariagoranovic at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 15:41:27 CET 2012


I will try to fix this. Thank you.

Now, the problem I have is that the executables all belong to root, and as
a user, I am unable to execute them. How to fix this little one?

Maria

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>wrote:

> sudo should not be necessary for looking in those directories. Whoever set
> them up has not set up the permissions on them properly. Fix the problem,
> not the symptoms - you do not want to have to configure software as root,
> or you are trusting every author of that software not to trash your system
> accidentally.
>
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:31 PM, maria goranovic
> <mariagoranovic at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > turned out to be a sudo problem. without sudo, the compiler could not
> look
> > into the root directories. sorry for spamming :(
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:25 PM, maria goranovic
> > <mariagoranovic at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, I can see them in printenv
> > >
> > > does this have anything to do with single or double precision?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Mark Abraham <
> mark.j.abraham at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> Are those variables actully showing up in your environment?
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:31 AM, maria goranovic
> > >> <mariagoranovic at gmail.com>wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Dear All
> > >> >
> > >> > I am trying to install 4.5.5 on my mac. I have installed fftw3 with
> > >> > --enable-float, and have used the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS options in my
> > >> > .bashrc file. GROMACS still complains that "configure: error: Cannot
> > >> find
> > >> > fftw3f library".
> > >> >
> > >> > Why is it not able to find the libraries?
> > >> >
> > >> > Here are the specific details:
> > >> >
> > >> > content of .bashrc:
> > >> >
> > >> > export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include"
> > >> > export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
> > >> >
> > >> > % ls /usr/local/lib/*fft*
> > >> > /usr/local/lib/libfftw3f.a /usr/local/lib/libfftw3f.la
> > >> >
> > >> > % ls /usr/local/include/*fft*
> > >> > /usr/local/include/fftw3.f /usr/local/include/fftw3.f03
> > >> > /usr/local/include/fftw3.h /usr/local/include/fftw3l.f03
> > >> > /usr/local/include/fftw3q.f03
> > >> >
> > >> > Any ideas what might be going wrong?
> > >> >
> > >> > Thank you
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> > Maria G.
> > >> > Technical University of Denmark
> > >> > Copenhagen
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Maria G.
Technical University of Denmark
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