Andrew Martin <amartin at stagleys.demon.co.uk> said:
> Alpha works great if you compile using DEC CC under Digital Unix
> then use the executable.
We've done that before and it works well. I don't recall serious
crashes on BLAST with that configuration. There was a bug with
error reporting on exit when using incorrect inputs that I reported
to NCBI last spring. That's probably fixed by now.
What I wanted to add was:
1) to do as Andrew suggested you need to statically link the
executable when compiling under Digital Unix
2) BLAST can call an external complexity filter and does so with
a call to system(). This requires "sh" to work, and Digitial Unix
hard codes the sh to be in /usr/bin/sh (I think). Red Hat 5.1 Linux
doesn't have sh in that location (it uses /bin/sh) so we had to make
a symbolic link from one to the other.
(another) Andrew
dalke at bioreason.com
