[Pw_forum] pain in running example

[Axel Kohlmeyer]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, sreekar guddeti wrote:

SG> Dear Paolo,

let's see if we can solve this without bothering paolo...

SG> I finally gave up installing v3.2.3, but cvs4.0 seems to have worked (on
SG> executing command i dont get any error message in the end...), but on
SG> editing the environmental variables file in examples folder to
SG> 
SG> PREFIX=`cd ../.. ; pwd`
SG> BIN_DIR=$/home/colonel/Documents/seminar_project/espresso4.0cvs2/bin
SG> PSEUDO_DIR=$/home/colonel/Documents/seminar_project/espresso4.0cvs2/pseudo
SG> TMP_DIR=$/home/colonel/Documents/seminar_project/espresso4.0cvs2/tmp
           ^^
why do you put a $ there? if you don't move stuff around,
you actually don't have to modify this file (for serial 
execution that is and if you specify a full path you don't
need a $. the code now tries to expand '$/'

SG> 
SG> (installation folder is
SG> /home/colonel/Documents/seminar_project/espresso4.0cvs)
SG> 
SG> on running example01 ./runexample i get the error message...
SG> ../check_failure.sh: 2: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
SG> 
SG> could u plz help me out

you have to look at what line 2 in check_failue.sh does.

cheers,
   axel.

SG> regards,
SG> sreekar guddeti
SG> 

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