[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1573: Simfactory aborts when --basedir is added as option to 'sim create-submit'

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#1573: Simfactory aborts when --basedir is added as option to 'sim create-submit'
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  Reporter:  bmundim     |       Owner:  eschnett  
      Type:  defect      |      Status:  new       
  Priority:  major       |   Milestone:  ET_2014_05
 Component:  SimFactory  |     Version:  ET_2013_11
Resolution:              |    Keywords:            
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Comment (by bmundim):

 Hi Erik:

 > Saving it into the simulation's properties.ini file doesn't make sense
 since this file is located in basedir, so basedir needs to be known to
 find this file.

 I had the impression the simulation info was stored there after submission
 and loaded when needed to run.

 > I assume that the simfactory command in the submit script template
 (*.sub file) needs a --basedir=@BASEDIR@ option. Can you try this? You
 would either modify the submit script that is stored with the executable,
 or rebuild the executable with a --submitscript=... option.

 I tried your suggestion but unfortunately it didn't work. The submission
 script was updated correctly in the Cactus/config/<config_name> directory.
 The submission script was copied correctly to

 {{{
 /path/to/new/basedir/SIMFACTORY/run/Submitscript
 }}}

 here however I see that @MACHINE@ was already replaced while @BASEDIR@
 wasn't:

 {{{
 --basedir=@BASEDIR@  --machine=loewe
 }}}

 and at last, in the output directory

 {{{
 output-0000/SIMFACTORY
 }}}

 Submitscript had still @BASEDIR@ not replaced.

 So somewhere in this chain info about basedir is not loaded or loaded
 directly from the machine definition. I added the option
 --basedir=/path/to/blah both when I 'sim build' and 'sim create-submit'.

 Thanks,
 Bruno.

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