<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Q-E developers,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is my first day with quantum espresso.</div><div class="">While compiling the <font color="#0056d6" class="">PHonon</font> package I have notices that I have to move every thing residing in the <font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0</font> directory to one directory up because the setup in the </div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" class=""><font color="#0061ff" class="">Q-ESPRESSO_HOME/install/plugins_makefile</font> </font>does not match with <font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0</font> directory structure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PHonon</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PlotPhon</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/QHA</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PHonon/D3/</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PHonon/Doc/</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PHonon/FD/</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PHonon/Gamma/</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PHonon/Makefile/</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PHonon/PH/</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PHonon/examples/</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">while the <font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">install/plugins_makefile</font> says;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class="">phonon: uncompress-phonon</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> if test -d ../PHonon; then \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> cd ../PHonon; $(MAKE) all || exit 1; cd ../bin; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> ln -fs ../PHonon/PH/ph.x . ; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> ln -fs ../PHonon/PH/dynmat.x . ; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> ln -fs ../PHonon/PH/matdyn.x . ; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> ln -fs ../PHonon/PH/q2r.x . ; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> ln -fs ../PHonon/PH/q2qstar.x . ; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> ln -fs ../PHonon/PH/lambda.x . ; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> ln -fs ../PHonon/PH/fqha.x . ; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> ln -fs ../PHonon/Gamma/phcg.x . ; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> ln -fs ../PHonon/D3/d3.x . ; \</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> fi</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0061ff" class=""> touch make-phonon</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">as there is no <font color="#0056d6" class="">Makefile</font> in <span style="color: rgb(0, 97, 255); font-family: Monaco;" class="">PHonon-5.3.0</span> (also no PH/ Gamma/ or D3/) so this of course results in the error </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0056d6" class="">make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../../make.sys'. Stop.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0056d6" class="">make[2]: *** [phonon] Error 1</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0056d6" class="">make[1]: *** [phonon] Error 1</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" color="#0056d6" class="">make: *** [ph] Error 1</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is this expected that the user should move <span style="color: rgb(0, 97, 255); font-family: Monaco;" class="">PHonon-5.3.0/PHonon </span>one directory up?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards.</div><div class="">Zahid </div></body></html>