The ABINIT Users Mailing List ( CLOSED )

[Xavier Gonze <xavier.gonze@uclouvain.be>]

Dear ABINIT users,

ABINIT version 5.8.4 is available ...
You will find it on the new Web site,
http://www.abinit.org/abinit/downloads/source-packages

*** This release of ABINIT can be used in production  ***
It has been extensively tested on a Opteron-based architecture, with the
gfort4.3, pathscale compilers,
on an Intel machine with intel10.1,
on a Mac OSX - gfort4.3 platform,
on a IBM Power5 - XLF platform,
on a IA64 machine with ifort11.0 .
Several minor problems with v5.8.3 have been solved, in this present  
v5.8.4, that can be considered
more robust than v5.8.3.

For the new features of v5.8 compared to v5.7, please, see the release  
notes, at
http://www.abinit.org/documentation/helpfiles/for-v5.8/release_notes/release_notes.html 
 .

Please, read the installation notes at
http://www.abinit.org/documentation/helpfiles/for-v5.8/install_notes/install.html/
Numerical results have been checked, and the few remaining problems  
are described
in the file KNOWN_PROBLEMS at the top of the package.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THE BUILD OF v5.8.4 :

As for the previous production versions v5.6, v5.7, and unlike,  
v5.4.4, this new version makes available, by default,
many additional libraries (NetCDF, Nanoquanta/ETSF IO, BigDFT,  
Wannier90).
Note that, as for ABINITv5.6 and v5.7, we suspect that they might  
cause some problem
in the build process : your platform will likely differ from all the  
platforms
that have been used in our systematic tests, or by some developer.

In case you have problems, please consider disabling the build of all  
these new libraries :

configure --disable-all-plugins

or disabling a few of them, like the following :

configure --disable-netcdf --disable-etsf-io  --disable-bigdft
(choose among --disable-netcdf --disable-etsf-io  --disable-etsf-xc -- 
disable-bigdft --disable-wannier90 )

Note that the parallel build is disabled by default.
You may activate it using the --enable-mpi="yes"
option, provided that the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variables are properly set-up. If this is not
the case, the configure script will abort with the following
error message:

configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.

For the list of contributors, see the above-mentioned release notes.
Many thanks also to Jean-Michel Beuken, who installed many different  
compilers for the extensive
testing of the build system.

Have fun !
Xavier