CHARMM Development Project Forums User Discussion & Questions Installation and Testing setenv install error for c38b1

Hi dear members,

I'm trying to install CHARMM c38b1 but got the following error message: "setenv: Too many arguments."

Just untaring the tarball and executing the below mentioned command from c38b1 directory.

OS: Debian 3.2.60 x86_64
GCC version: 4.7.2
Gfortran is installed
Command: ./install.com gnu large M

Can anybody explain what's wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Did you miss the comment above about starting a new thread for a new topic? Was the information in READ BEFORE POSTING somehow not clear about how and what to post?

It's not a problem I've seen before, and it may be a user or system setup issue rather than a CHARMM issue.

I don't think there is enough information yet to hazard a rough guess. There should be more information output by install.com, and there should be a log file in build/gnu_M which may help.

Yes, I've read the information in READ BEFORE POSTING.

Ok, I'll create a new topic for my issue and describe my problem in more details.

And before creating a new topic will you please to tell what additional information I've to provide in order to be complete in describing of CHARMM compiling problem?

Thanks.

(Post moved and 'setenv' added to topic.)

There are a lot of 'setenv' commands in install.com, so the error message has no context in the absence of any other information.

One possibility is that the pathname for the CHARMM source, or the MPI library, etc., may have a space character in the name.


One thing you can try is to change the first line of install.com from

#!/bin/csh -f

to

#!/bin/csh -f -x

Adding the -x flag will echo the commands as they are executed; you may wish to redirect the output to a file, or use 'less' to see it a page at a time.

Yes, it was system setup issue related to csh.
Fix it and installed charmm successfully.

Thanks for helping.

It would be polite if you would please briefly explain what the issue was and how you fixed it. That way

• other people who will find themselves in your situation can benefit from it
• if it turns out that tcsh code that is incompatible with csh slipped into install.com (again), the issue can be fixed in the next CHARMM release

Hi,

Sorry for being late.

I think it was issue related to csh, because after installing csh I didn't configure the user environment( .cshrc and .login files).
Also I noticed that the folder's name, where Charmm was executed, has space. Maybe that space also influenced on Charmm installation.