[Users] cactus simulation build

[Sharath Maddineni]

Hi Erik,

Thanks for the input. working directory seems to be the issue. I changed it
 to /path/to/Cactus.

$sim create seems to work fine now.

Once again thanks a lot.

Sharath.


On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>wrote:

> Sharath
>
> Simfactory supports having multiple Cactus source trees around; this
> is useful in many cases, e.g. if one has a production and a
> development tree. Therefore, Simfactory needs to know which source
> tree to use. You therefore have to call Simfactory from within the
> Cactus source tree. This is similar to other Unix commands such as
> make or svn.
>
> The error message is indeed wrong; it should instead say that your
> current directory is not a subdirectory of the sourcebasedir. (The
> sourcebasedir is the directory containing the sourcedir, which is the
> actual Cactus directory.)
>
> -erik
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Steven R. Brandt <sbrandt at cct.lsu.edu>
> wrote:
> > I agree with Shantenu, you shouldn't have to debug these issues. Just
> send
> > them to the list where there are a lot of people who can provide answers.
> >
> > In this particular case, I think the error message is badly formatted.
> The
> > command wants to be issued from inside the Cactus directory. It looks
> like
> > there used to be a more useful error message in simlib.py in the
> > GetDirSuffix routine, but it was commented out. I'm not sure why. Should
> we
> > put it back?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve
> >
> > On 03/28/2012 10:49 PM, Sharath Maddineni wrote:
> >
> > Hello Dr. Steve,
> >
> > the cactus simulation build is so flaky/inconsistant
> >
> > please see the following commands. This does not make senese at all to
> me. I
> > have spending lot of time debugging these kind of issues. Other than
> these
> > minor issues running/steps
> > from there DARE part is done. been encountering these issues all along.
> >
> > cactus build exists and when I create some times it does creates and some
> > times it does not. Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong
> >
> > [smaddi2 at qb1 einsteintoolkit_build]$
> > /work/smaddi2/agent/einsteintoolkit_build/Cactus/simfactory/bin/sim
> >
> --parfile=/work/smaddi2/agent/einsteintoolkit_build/Cactus/par/static_tov.par
> > create --configuration sim static1
> > Parameter file:
> > /work/smaddi2/agent/einsteintoolkit_build/Cactus/par/static_tov.par
> > Skeleton Created
> > Job directory: "/work/smaddi2/simulations/static1"
> > Error: Given sourcebasedir '/work/smaddi2/agent/einsteintoolkit_build'
> does
> > not contain a Cactus directory
> > Aborting Simfactory.
> > [smaddi2 at qb1 einsteintoolkit_build]$ ls
> > Cactus cactus_installer.py  einsteintoolkit.th  GetComponents
> > GetComponents.1  GetComponents.2  GetComponents.3
> > [smaddi2 at qb1 einsteintoolkit_build]$ pwd
> > /work/smaddi2/agent/einsteintoolkit_build
> > [smaddi2 at qb1 einsteintoolkit_build]$ ls Cactus/exe/
> > cactus_sim  sim
> >
> > please let me know if I am doing anything wrong.
> >
> > Sharath
> >
> >
> >
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