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<meta content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined" http-equiv="Content-Type" > <br >Hi gromacs users,<br ><br >I am trying to install gromacs on Linux. While installing the fftw module , I am getting the following error<br >at the ./configure stage:<br ><br ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">[root@Sharada fftw-3.1.2]# ./configure --enable-float --enable-threads --enable-sse</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking whether build environment is sane... yes</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for gawk... gawk</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for gcc... gcc</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking whether the C compiler works... yes</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking whether we are cross compiling... no</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for suffix of executables...</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for suffix of object files... o</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for style of include used by make... GNU</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for C compiler vendor... gnu</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) -std=gnu99</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking whether ln -s works... yes</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for ld used by gcc -std=gnu99... /usr/bin/ld</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check</SPAN><br style="font-style: italic;" ><SPAN STYLE="font-style: italic;">See `config.log' for more details.<br ><br ></SPAN>what does the error trying to tell me ? cpp is linked to /usr/bin/cpp. I am installing from the root account. can any body help ? I am attaching the config.log file alongwith. Thanks in advance.<br ><br >regards,<br >sharada<br >_______________________________________________<br >gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org<br >http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users<br >Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the <br >www interface or send it to gmx-users-request@gromacs.org.<br >Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php</TD>
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