AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: Re: AMBER: GNU Autotool integration for Amber8!

From: Xuebin Qiao (xbqiao_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 08:55:10 CDT

Hi, David:
Thanks for you reply. I'll post the sample code snippets to developer-list
and get contact with you soon.

On 10/20/05, David A. Case <case_at_scripps.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005, Xuebin Qiao wrote:
> >
> > The most important reason that I want to use autotool is to hide
> > (auto-detect the default value of) the various tuning knobs in the
> configure
> > script. For example, there are several compiler/architect combinations
> > switches, such as sgi_mips, sparc and etc. And the arch guess code in
> > current configure script is quite limited. Can we automatically discover
> > most of the values of the supported combinations for end users?
>
> I think it would be great to more reliably auto-detect environments, but I
> wonder if autotools is really simpler or more reliable than coding the
> "configure" script directly. Maybe if you could post a simple detection
> macro
> that you are using for autotools, it would give a better idea.
>
> [We can get you access to the amber9 code...contact me privately for that.
> But as you can tell, I am not committing us to use autotools ... that will
> still require quite a bit of pursuasion.]
>
> We might move this discussion to the amber-developers list: to subscribe,
> send an e-mail to majordomo_at_scripps.edu, with "subscribe amber-developers"
> in
> the body of the message.
>
> ...regards...dac
>
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