[Developers] ADMB in a Linux machine

[Johnoel Ancheta]

Thanks Dave,

Merged the changes to tpl2cpp lex file and committed to 
the repository (revision 636).  You can see the changes by
updating.

admb-trunk$ svn update

Cheers,
Johnoel

----- Original Message -----
From: dave fournier <davef at otter-rsch.com>
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:13 am
Subject: Re: [Developers] ADMB in a Linux machine
To: Arni Magnusson <arnima at hafro.is>
Cc: developers at admb-project.org

> Arni Magnusson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I modified the code to strip the ctrl M off the string. (See 
> crtl M in
> the comments).
> This is the lex source for tpl2cpp. myallc builds tpl2cpp from it.
> 
>      Dave
> 
> 
> > It turns out that ADMB in Linux compiles and runs many models
> > (including simple.tpl) regardless of line endings:
> >
> > $ unix2dos simple.tpl
> > $ admb simple
> > $ simple
> >
> > GCC, R, and most tools I work with can handle both line 
> endings just
> > fine, so I think it would be worthwhile to make ADMB robust to line
> > endings.
> >
> > In Saang-Yoon's example (attached), it's enough to comment out the
> > runtime section,
> >
> > // RUNTIME_SECTION
> > //   maximum_function_evaluations 10000
> >
> > and then the model compiles and runs. Otherwise, tpl2cpp 
> mangles this
> > specific line so mark_recap13.cpp becomes:
> >
> >   void model_parameters::set_runtime(void)
> >   {
> >     dvector temp1("{10000^M}");
> >     ...
> >
> > Note the ^M inside the string. Do you think this is an 
> isolated bug in
> > tpl2cpp that we can fix, to make ADMB as robust to line 
> endings as GCC
> > and related tools?
> >
> > Arni
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:57:34 +0000 (UTC)
> > From: Arni Magnusson <arnima at hafro.is>
> > To: Saang-Yoon Hyun <shyunuw at gmail.com>, forh at critfc.org
> > Cc: users at admb-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [ADMB Users] ADMB in a Linux machine
> >
> > Hi Saang-Yoon,
> >
> > The problem you're running into is that ADMB in Linux doesn't like
> > Windows line endings (see
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Common_problems).
> >
> > You can convert between Linux and Windows line endings using a text
> > editor, or command line tools like 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos':
> >
> > $ dos2unix mark_recap13.tpl
> > $ admb mark_recap13.tpl
> > $ mark_recap13 -ind mr_v13.dat
> >
> > Arni
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 13 May 2010, Saang-Yoon Hyun wrote:
> >
> >> A programmer at my agency and I run into a few errors in 
> compling a
> >> TPL file in a Linux machine.  We believe this problem is 
> about a
> >> mis-match between a complier and the TPL codes, because the 
> TPL file
> >> was perfectly run in a MS Window machine.  I wonder 
> about whether you
> >> had some experience in compling and linking a TPL file in a Linux
> >> machine.  If not, would you introduce someone else we 
> can inquire?
> >> For information, I attach TPL and DAT files to this email.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much,
> >>
> >> Saang-Yoon
> >>
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