[Users] cactus simulation build

[Erik Schnetter]

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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