VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 14:07:43 CDT

Lubos,
  Send me your Make-arch file so I can compare it with the normal one,
and update ours if it is too out-of-date. That's the likely issue
you're running into, perhaps something simple is amiss in the Make-arch file.

  John

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:28:53AM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
>
> dear john,
>
> you probably recall my previous attempt to build VMD on my NetBSD box. i
> was not very succesful (at the very end i had problems with pthreads),
> but went back to it now. i also have new
> version of NetBSD with beter pthreads support installed...
>
> i checked out the newest sources, made a slight modification to the
> Make-arch (basically adding the support for NetBSD) and tried to run it with
> make NETBSD TCLINC=/usr/pkg/include TCLLIB=/usr/pkg/lib
> but i immediately get
> ...
> Building Molecule File Reader plugins
> make: don't know how to make cpmdplugin.c. Stop
>
> make stopped in .../plugins/molfile_plugin
> cd: can't cd to psfgen
> cd: can't cd tp autoimd
> *** Error code 2
>
> i also tried using gmake, but there firstly i can see many lines with
> gmake[2]: Entering directory .... plugins/something
> gmake[2]: Nothing to be done for dynliba
>
> then it proceeds with compilation of Molecule File Reader Plugins, but after
> gcc -02 -Wall ... cpmdplugin.o
> i get following line
> o ../compile/lib_NETBSD/molfile/cpmdplugin.so
> ../compile/lib..../cpmdplugin.o
> gmake[2]: o: command not found
> and it goes on. later i can see the errors with psfgen and autoimd
> cd: can't cd to psfgen
> cd: can't cd tp autoimd
> and it crashes with another error:
> gcc: cannot specify -o with -c or -S and multiple compilations
>
> is there something very basic i'm missing here? i tried to compile again
> the old version of plugins that compiled ok last time, but got very
> similar result - so i don't know what's going on...
>
> do you have any hint? thanks for your help. best regards,
>
> --
> Lubos
> _@_"
>
>
>
> --
> Lubos
> _@_" 

-- 
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349              
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078