[Pw_forum] Infinite loop while making EPW

[Vahid Askarpour]

Dear QE Users,

I downloaded espresso-5.4.0 today and I successfully compiled EPW. I just skipped step 2.

Best,
Vahid


> On Apr 27, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Vahid Askarpour <vh261281 at dal.ca> wrote:
> 
> Dear QE Users,
> 
> Following my earlier post on “Zero scattering rates for bulk Ge for some k points using EPW”, I noticed that there are new instructions on EPW website for installing the software. Assuming that my installation was flawed,
> I recompiled the QE and EPW codes on Linux (x86_84 Redhat 4.4.7.3) with intel-14.0.2 and openmpi-1.6.5 :
> 
> 1. Downloaded and extracted both espresso-5.4.0 and EPW-5.4.0
> 2. Moved EPW folder inside the QE folder
> 3. Inside the QE folder, I typed ./configure --prefix=/home/vahid/bin/espresso-5.4.0
> 4. Inside the QE folder, I typed “make epw”
> 
> This got me into a never-ending loop of uncompress-w90 followed by configure-w90 and then the making of the wannier package. After make[22] of the wannier package, I gave up.
> 
> Are the above steps correct? Is there a way out of this loop?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Vahid
> 
> Vahid Askarpour
> Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science
> Dalhousie University
> Halifax, NS, Canada
> 
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