[gmx-users] make install creating infinite recursive directories: addendum

[Mark Abraham]

Hi,

That makes no sense. I can't reproduce your symptoms at all (with git
version or tarball). The build system does append "/" and then
"share/gromacs" to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX before using it for the files in
the top directory, but there's no conceivable way the build system could
spam successive "gromacs" subdirectories, because the addition is of
"share/gromacs." In your case, a variable whose value is
/share/apps/gromacs-4.6.5//share/gromacs gets made. Perhaps you could try
without the terminating slash in CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX? I can't see why it
should work, but if it does, then we should fix the build system to be more
sensitive to that.

Mark


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Harry Mark Greenblatt <
harry.greenblatt at weizmann.ac.il> wrote:

> BS"D
>
> I just tried to build gromacs on a workstation with Centos 6.5, under /opt
>  and got the same problem.  So it's not a ROCKS issue.
>
> I *did* succeed on a Centos 6.5 workstation where I *didn't* specify the
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX and "make install" put things in /usr/local.
>
> Thanks
>
> Harry
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>  I am trying to build 4.6.5 for testing, on a Rocks 5.3 cluster (yes it
> needs upgrading!).  I am using one of the compute nodes to do the
> compiling, using the following:
>
> CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/share/apps/fftw-3.3.2
>  /share/apps/cmake-2.8.12.2/bin/cmake ..
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/share/apps/gromacs-4.6.5/
> -DGMX_CPU_ACCELERATION=SSE2
>
> This step is fine, as is the "make" step.
>
> But when I type "make install", it starts to copy the files to the correct
> place, but under "share" it starts to make many recursive gromacs
> subdirectories.  Here is an example early on in the process
>
> Installing:
> /share/apps/gromacs-4.6.5/share/gromacs/./gromacs/top/amber96.ff/rna.r2b
>
> As the install proceeds, the number of
> gromacs/./gromacs/gromacs/gromacs......   directories keeps growing (as in
> the recursion level keeps going up).
>
> Any advice?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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