[Trilinos-Users] Trilinos CVS version fails to install

[Daniele Avitabile]

To support my previous email, I have now installed the CVS version of
Trilinos in a directory that doesn't contain the substring "++", and the
installation works fine.

Best.

Daniele

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Daniele Avitabile <d.avitabile at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you look carefully at my error, it looks like perl is bothered by the
> occurrence of "++" in the string
>
> /Users/enxda/Programs/C++
>
> I believe "+" is a metacharacter. One situation in which perl would throw a
> nested quantifier in regexp is if you have a $foo string that contains a
> metacharacter, in this case the substring "++". I believe if you run
> something like
>
> /.$foo/
>
> and $foo was "++", Perl could want to interpolate the string into /.++/ and
> this would raise an error because ".++" could be interpreted as a regexp.
>
> I believe this can be avoided by escaping before $foo via \Q$foo$\E.
>
> Does it make sense to you?
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Daniele Avitabile <d.avitabile at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I am just trying to install the CVS version of Trilinos. I can configure
>> it and compile it correctly. The make install command, though, exits in an
>> error. It occurred to me on two different platforms, using a configure
>> script that has always been working so far. The last lines of the make
>> isntall command read
>>
>> cp ./Makefile.export.epetra /Users/enxda/Programs/C++/
>> SwiftHohenberg/Worms/trilinos-development/Trilinos/MAC_MPI/build/include/.
>> perl ../../../packages/epetra/config/replace-install-prefix.pl \
>>
>> --exec-prefix=/Users/enxda/Programs/C++/SwiftHohenberg/Worms/trilinos-development/Trilinos/MAC_MPI/build
>> \
>>                 --my-export-makefile=Makefile.export.epetra \
>>
>> --my-abs-top-srcdir=/Users/enxda/Programs/C++/SwiftHohenberg/Worms/trilinos-development/Trilinos/MAC_MPI/packages/epetra/../../../packages/epetra
>> \
>>
>> --my-abs-incl-dirs=/Users/enxda/Programs/C++/SwiftHohenberg/Worms/trilinos-development/Trilinos/MAC_MPI/packages/epetra/src:/Users/enxda/Programs/C++/SwiftHohenberg/Worms/trilinos-development/Trilinos/MAC_MPI/packages/epetra/../../../packages/epetra/src
>> \
>>
>> --my-abs-lib-dirs=/Users/enxda/Programs/C++/SwiftHohenberg/Worms/trilinos-development/Trilinos/MAC_MPI/packages/epetra/src
>> \
>>
>> --dep-package-abs-builddirs=/Users/enxda/Programs/C++/SwiftHohenberg/Worms/trilinos-development/Trilinos/MAC_MPI/packages/epetra/../teuchos
>> Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in
>> m/([^\w\d_]|^)/Users/enxda/Programs/C++ <-- HERE
>> /SwiftHohenberg/Worms/trilinos-development/Trilinos/MAC_MPI/packages/epetra/../teuchos([^\w\d_]|$)/
>> at
>> /Users/enxda/Programs/C++/SwiftHohenberg/Worms/trilinos-development/Trilinos/MAC_MPI/packages/epetra/../../../packages/epetra/config/token-replace.pl
>> line 36.
>> Died at ../../../packages/epetra/config/replace-install-prefix.pl line 88.
>> make[5]: *** [install-exec-hook] Error 255
>> make[4]: *** [install-exec-am] Error 2
>> make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
>> make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>>
>>
>> Any idea as to why this happens? I would need to have the CVS version
>> installed.
>>
>> Best.
>>
>
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