[gmx-users] Error Message in Make clean command for installation.

[Mark Abraham]

On 9/03/2012 11:58 PM, a a wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I did find the directory "gromacs-4.5.5"
>
> However, when I go into this folder, I have problem to do the "make" 
> command.  I found there is no "Make" file inside the folder.  I can 
> only see the following files inside this folder.  Should I do "make 
> clean" then?
>
> acinclude.m4    config        Doxyfile.in       log          share
> aclocal.m4      config.log    include           Makefile.am  src
> admin           configure     INSTALL.automake  Makefile.in  tests
> AUTHORS         configure.ac  INSTALL.cmake     man
> cmake           COPYING       INSTALL-GPU & nbsp;     README
> CMakeLists.txt  COPYING-GPU   libtool           scripts
>
> Should I do Makefile.am or Makefile.in intead?

"make clean" is also unnecessary, and won't work until you have done a 
configure stage. I suggest you take installation instructions from the 
GROMACS webpage, and pick up their tutorial once you have done a proper 
installation.

Mark

>
> Best regards,
>
> Catherine
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:22:51 +1100
> From: Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
> To: gmx-users at gromacs.org
> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Error Message when installing GROMACS.
>
> On 9/03/2012 10:58 PM, a a wrote:
>
>     Dear Sir/Madam,
>
>     I am trying to install the GROMACS to my new workstation.  As my
>     old one is not belong to me, I cannot install VMD to it.  Please
>     kindly help to instruct if I did anything wrong here.  Many thanks.
>
>     Follow the steps in
>     http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~smanchu/gromacs_installation.html
>     <http://www.cems.uvm.edu/%7Esmanchu/gromacs_installation.html>, I
>     have done the installation fftw-3.0.1 at my
>     "/Catherine/Gromacs/fftw-3.0.1" directory.
>
>     Follow the steps in
>     http://fertoledo.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/how-to-calculate-cosine-content-in-amber/,
>     i.e. [wget ftp://ftp.gromacs
>     .org/pub/gromacs/gromacs-4.5.4.tar.gz], I have downloaded the
>     gromacs to my Catherine/Gromacs/ folder.
>
>     Follow the steps in
>     http://www.gromacs.org/Downloads/Installation_Instructions, I have
>     start installing the GROMACS.
>
>     > tar  -xzvf  gromacs-4.5.4.tar.gz
>     > cd gromacs-4-5-4
>
>
> The instruction for this command is wrong, because this is not the 
> directory created by the previous command. Please inform the author of 
> the tutorial.
>
> Mark
>
>     > make clean
>     > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gromacs --program-suffix=""
>     > make
>     > make install
>     *
>     *
>     However, when I do make clean, following error message appear.
>
>     make: *** No rule to make target `clean'.  Stop.
>
>     When I continously doing the make after ./configure step, I found the following error message:
>
>     make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
>
>     Could you please kindly instruct if I have done any things stupidly wrong?  Following is the log file for the configure.log, please kindly help.
>
>     Catherine
>
>
>
>
>
>     *
>     *
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>     *
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