[gmx-users] on the regression tests

[Mark Abraham]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 6:29 AM, Brett <brettliu123 at 163.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> When I install gromacs-5.0.3, after the "make check" step, it indicates
> "Regression tests have not been run. If you want to run them from the build
> systems,get the correct version of the regression tests ackage and set
> REGRESSION_PATH in CMake to point to it, or set REGRESSIONTEST_DOWNLOAF=ON".
>
> Without doing the regression tests, I complete the "sudo make install" and
> "source /usr/local/gromacs/bin/GMXPC" steps and completing the gromacs
> installation.
>
> Will you please let me know is any side-effect on my gromacs installation
> without the regression tests?


None, except that you can have lower confidence that GROMACS will work as
intended. Problems are fairly unlikely, however (depending how weird your
distro and compiler are).

Mark