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[Yann Pouillon <yann.pouillon@ehu.es>]

Hi,

First, you were right not to use sudo. You should never need such a  
thing to run any test suite of any scientific software.

Second, it is possible to run the test suite of Abinit after install.  
What you need to do is edit the tests.env file, which is installed  
with the tests. It's enough to have it pointing out to the right places.

Third, you should never assume that things will work out of the box.  
It's only by running the test suite that you can know how much you can  
trust your binaries.

If you don't find the tests.env file, you can regenerate it from the  
source tarball. It is created when you run configure.

Best regards,

Yann.

"Aaron S. Wolf" <wolf.aarons@gmail.com> ha escrito:

> Hi Alain-
>     I tried to run run-basic-tests.sh after using chmod +x, but it didn't
> work. It said that I didn't have permissions:
> Scripts/run-basic-tests.sh . 1
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/jacques': Permission denied
> I wasn't sure what the script was doing so I decided not to call sudo on it
> to make it go through. Is using sudo a good idea? Is it possible to run the
> tests at all once the binaries are created, or must I just trust that
> everything is working as it should? (I am a little worried about just
> trusting the output, since I don't have enough familiarity to be sure the
> code is running correctly without the unit tests provided with the
> distribution. I can only verify that it runs at all...). Thanks again for
> all your help!
>
> Best,
> Aaron Wolf
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Alain Jacques <ajs.jacques@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >  Hello Aaron,
> >
> > I am afraid you cannot run the full test suite again after installing the
> > binaries. The test routines - makefiles, perl - are dependent on the
> > structure of the sources and build directories and are designed to be called
> > from a makefile after compiling the code - . Most of the information is
> > there - look at the scripts run-basic-tests.pl and run-standard-tests.pl.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Alain
> >
> >
> >
> > Aaron S. Wolf wrote:
> >
> > Hi Alain-
> >    Thanks for those binaries. I don't need to make them myself (at least
> > not right now). I was wondering how to run the tests, since all of the make
> > files are missing, so I can't just use make test1 etc. Thanks for everyones
> > help!
> > -aaron wolf
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Alain Jacques <ajs.jacques@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Aaron,
> > >
> > > First of al, if you don't want to break your head, may I suggest you to
> > > download my OSX binaries from
> > > http://www.etsf.eu/resources/software/etsf_software_repository
> > > They include all the plugins, they are optimized and pass all the tests.
> > >
> > > If you insist to do it yourself ... I am a bit lost; I don't know if you
> > > have produced working binaries. What kind of fortran compiler do you use
> > > (Intel, gfortran from Fink or Macport)?  Can you show your configure
> > > options? Can you provide the output of an "otool -L abinis" and "otool
> > > -L abinip"?
> > >
> > >   ...



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