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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2013 - 10:29:49 CDT

Richard,
  You need to make a symlink from your PLUGINDIR location, into
vmd/plugins, if that wasn't where you had set PLUGINDIR to point to already.
That should cure that problem.

Cheers,
  John

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:15:07AM +0000, Cook, Rich wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to build VMD from source.
> I'm following the instructions (I think) from
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/compiling.html#compiling
> Here is what I do, and what happens. I'd appreciate some guidance...
> tar -xzf $SRC_DIR/vmd-${_vers}.src.tar.gz
> # http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/doxygen/compiling.html
> pushd plugins
> make LINUXAMD64
> export PLUGINDIR=$1${prefix}/plugins
> make distrib # <----------- SUCCEEDS
> popd
> # http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/doxygen/compiling.html#compiling
> pushd vmd-${_vers}
> export VMDINSTALLBINDIR=$1${prefix}/bin
> export VMDINSTALLLIBRARYDIR=$1${prefix}
> make linux.cuda64.opengl
> At this point, I get this:
> + make linux.cuda64.opengl
> ./configure LINUXAMD64 OPENGL FLTK TK IMD VRPN SILENT LIBSBALL XINPUT TCL
> PTHREADS ACTC LIBTACHYON NETCDF PYTHON NUMPY CUDA
> Halting configuration until VMD plugins are built.
> VMD plugin directory not found.
> Please compile the VMD plugins and do 'make distrib' to copy them
> into a 'plugins' directory linked or located in this directory.
> Be sure your PLUGINDIR environment variable is set before running
> 'make distrib' in the plugin build area.
> What gives? I have set PLUGINDIR as you can see in the commands above,
> but it is being ignored.
> Thanks for any help...
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