[ADMB Users] Please test updated installation documentation.

Mon Nov 18 10:15:49 PST 2013

Regarding "Doesn't anyone test this stuff?", Johnoel sent an email titled
"Please test updated installation documentation." and a bunch of folks
responded with the results of their tests. So the answer is "yes".

However, I think the question should be whether the ADMB project should
have a more formal testing process, with a set of designated testers?
Probably so. I'm happy to be one of the testers, but it would be good to
have a larger set.

-Ian

On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Jon Schnute <schnutej-dfo at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Further to my previous message, I have now tried the same experiment using
> the version 11.1 source code, rather than ADMB-latest. I discovered that
> this version produces a much smaller Unix tree in the directory
> ..\admb\utilities\mingw, so I used the ..\mingw tree that I downloaded from
> the latest. (I just replaced the 11.1 ..\mingw directory with the new one
> obtained today.) Then I tried to make the 11.1 binary ADMB library as
> before, and again the process failed while trying to compile ‘amoeba.cpp’.
>
>
>
> Does amoeba.cpp require something special? Are both of you getting this
> same problem? I’m taking care to ensure that nothing on my path would
> override the Unix tools at ..\admb\utilities\mingw.
>
>
>
> Incidentally, for step 5 I used ‘\utilities\make’ rather than ‘make’ as
> stated in my previous message. On this point, why do you use a possibly old
> version of ‘make’ embedded in the ADMB source code, rather than the version
> of ‘make’ that currently comes with mingw/msys?
>
>
>
> These problems help illustrate the reasons that I flagged this as an
> important issue. I’m not blaming anyone, but I hope you’ll stay with this
> until the problems are resolved.
>
>
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> PS – I really sympathize with Dave’s question: “Doesn't anyone test this
> stuff?” I think the ADMB project needs some volunteer testers who at least
> check each new release on each OS. I’m trying to play that role in this
> exercise, at least for the Windows OS.
>
>
>
> PPS – I wonder why the version of mingw that Dave obtained yesterday
> worked, whereas the version obtained with get-mingw.bat appears not to.
>
>
>
> *From:* Jon Schnute [mailto:schnutej-dfo at shaw.ca]
> *Sent:* November-16-13 4:28 PM
> *To:* 'Johnoel Ancheta'; 'dave fournier'
> *Cc:* 'ADMB Users'
> *Subject:* RE: [ADMB Users] Please test updated installation
> documentation.
>
>
>
> Johnoel and Dave - Thanks for the updated documentation. I’ve tried to
> follow it carefully, starting with the file admb-latest.zip obtained via
> your link:
>
>
>
> http://www.admb-project.org/buildbot/snapshots/admb-latest.zip
>
>
>
> From this I manually extracted the ‘admb’ directory tree to D:\Temp\admb.
> That’s essentially step 2,  where I’ve used a slightly different directory
> than you suggested. I then used a command window to install mingw:
>
>
>
> D:\Temp\admb\> utilities\get-mingw.bat
>
>
>
> That seemed to work fine, giving me a fully populated tree at
> D:\Temp\admb\utilities\mingw. Furthermore, I get g++ version 4.8.1 with the
> command:
>
>
>
> D:\Temp\admb\utilities\mingw\bin>g++ --version
>
> g++ (GCC) 4.8.1
>
>
>
> I presume this is a 32-bit compiler, right? Anyway I’m now done with step
> 4.
>
>
>
> To implement step 5, I used the command:
>
>
>
> D:\Temp\admb\make
>
>
>
> This seemed to be working nicely for a while  until it failed suddenly
> while trying to compile the file amoeba.cppp. Here is the final console of
> information:
>
>
>
> ***** Final screen
>
> g++ -c -O3 -Wall -DSAFE_ALL -D__GNUDOS__ -Dlinux -D__SPDLL__ -DUSE_LAPLACE
> -I..\
>
> build\dist\include -o..\build\objects\dist\saflp-linad99-vrannegbin.obj
> linad99\
>
> vrannegbin.cpp
>
> g++ -c -O3 -Wall -DSAFE_ALL -D__GNUDOS__ -Dlinux -D__SPDLL__ -DUSE_LAPLACE
> -I..\
>
> build\dist\include -o..\build\objects\dist\saflp-linad99-vregress.obj
> linad99\vr
>
> egress.cpp
>
> g++ -c -O3 -Wall -DSAFE_ALL -D__GNUDOS__ -Dlinux -D__SPDLL__ -DUSE_LAPLACE
> -I..\
>
> build\dist\include -o..\build\objects\dist\saflp-linad99-vspline.obj
> linad99\vsp
>
> line.cpp
>
> g++ -c -O3 -Wall -DSAFE_ALL -D__GNUDOS__ -Dlinux -D__SPDLL__ -DUSE_LAPLACE
> -I..\
>
> build\dist\include -o..\build\objects\dist\saflp-linad99-vtdev.obj
> linad99\vtdev
>
> .cpp
>
> g++ -c -O3 -Wall -DSAFE_ALL -D__GNUDOS__ -Dlinux -D__SPDLL__ -DUSE_LAPLACE
> -I..\
>
> build\dist\include -o..\build\objects\dist\saflp-linad99-xfmmtr1.obj
> linad99\xfm
>
> mtr1.cpp
>
> g++ -c -O3 -Wall -DSAFE_ALL -D__GNUDOS__ -Dlinux -D__SPDLL__ -DUSE_LAPLACE
> -I..\
>
> build\dist\include -o..\build\objects\dist\saflp-linad99-xgradclc.obj
> linad99\xg
>
> radclc.cpp
>
> g++ -c -O3 -Wall -DOPT_LIB -D__GNUDOS__ -Dlinux -D__SPDLL__ -DUSE_LAPLACE
> -I..\b
>
> uild\dist\include -o..\build\objects\dist\optlp-nh99-adsleep.obj
> nh99\adsleep.cp
>
> p
>
> g++ -c -O3 -Wall -DOPT_LIB -D__GNUDOS__ -Dlinux -D__SPDLL__ -DUSE_LAPLACE
> -I..\b
>
> uild\dist\include -o..\build\objects\dist\optlp-nh99-amoeba.obj
> nh99\amoeba.cpp
>
> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, cat ../VERSION, ...) failed.
>
> ***** End of final screen
>
>
>
> This is a bit weird, perhaps the result of recent changes to the source
> code. But rest assured that I’m taking everything written by both of you
> very seriously. I really appreciate your efforts.
>
>
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> *From:* users-bounces at admb-project.org [
> mailto:users-bounces at admb-project.org <users-bounces at admb-project.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *Johnoel Ancheta
> *Sent:* November-16-13 12:04 PM
> *To:* dave fournier
> *Cc:* ADMB Users
> *Subject:* Re: [ADMB Users] Please test updated installation
> documentation.
>
>
>
> Ahh, thanks for the feedback.  I assume that you are using
>
>
>
> http://www.admb-project.org/buildbot/documentation/quickstartwindows.html
>
>
>
> Which failed at step 5
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:55 AM, dave fournier <davef at otter-rsch.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> So then I installed the msys tools using the installer at.  Note that I
> ONLY
> installed the tools since the comiler is presumably already installed with
> Johnoel's
> commands.
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/
>
> put
>
>  c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin
>
> on my path.
>
> Check by  using commands like rm and cp.  OK so far.
>
>
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