Re: [AMBER] installation on MacOS10.6

From: Jason Swails <jason.swails.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 17:45:27 -0400

On second thought, try updating macports first

sudo port selfupdate

then clean the macports install of gcc44

sudo port clean --all gcc44

Then upgrade outdated

sudo port upgrade outdated

Then try again. If that doesn't work, then try fink.

All the best,
Jason

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails.gmail.com>wrote:

> This is weird... I didn't get this error (though I started from a fresh
> build of 10.6, not an upgrade). Perhaps try fink.
>
> All the best,
> Jason
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:19 PM, erik zuiderweg <zuiderwe.umich.edu>wrote:
>
>> gcc44 does not install... see errors ... thank for your help...
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>> /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_gcc44/work/build"
>> && /usr/bin/make -j2 bootstrap "
>>
>> are both there.
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>>
>> MAybe the problem is that my install of Macports did not install a
>> .profile as promised in the download page of Macports....
>>
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>> This is getting to be over my head.
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>> On May 15, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Paul S. Nerenberg wrote:
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>> > Hi Erik,
>> >
>> > I think the standard recommendation here would actually be gcc44 since
>> it is more mature, but I have compiled using gcc45 on my machine (admittedly
>> running MacOS 10.5, *not* 10.6) and it seems to work fine. Definitely
>> install the gcc_select package, so that you can easily switch been linking
>> to the "real" GNU or the Apple-provided compilers when the need arises.
>> Finally (and I think someone already suggested this), I strongly recommend
>> that you check out the "AMBER on Mac" website run by Mengjuei and others:
>> http://amberonmac.blogspot.com/. The installation guides on that site
>> have been pretty much foolproof in my experience.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
>> >
>> > On May 15, 2010, at 8:11 AM, erik zuiderweg wrote:
>> >
>> >> Which fortran package should I get from Macports for my macbook pro?
>> >>
>> >> qd 2.3.9 (C++/Fortran-90 double-double and quad-double looks attractive
>> to me
>> >>
>> >> or gcc45 ?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On May 14, 2010, at 9:00 PM, case wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On Fri, May 14, 2010, Jason Swails wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Indeed, you can mixed gfortran with apple gcc if you do instead of
>> >>>>> gcc -o testp testp.c.o testp.f.o -lgfortran -framework Accelerate
>> >>>>> use
>> >>>>> gfortran -o testp testp.c.o testp.f.o -framework Accelerate
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes, but this won't get you very far with AmberTools, which always
>> uses
>> >>> the former usage, not the latter. Basically, unless you want to
>> really spend
>> >>> a lot of time re-writing AmberTools, you need to install compilers
>> that
>> >>> work for the first of the options above. Following advice of others,
>> I've
>> >>> had good luck with macports for both 10.5 and 10.6, but I had
>> relatively
>> >>> new machines, and am certainly no expert on all the possible
>> combinations
>> >>> of compilers that people might want or need to use. But it seems
>> worthwhile
>> >>> to try to get gcc and gfortran at the same version level.
>> >>>
>> >>> ....dac
>> >>>
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