In article <1994Jan27.134516.1 at molbiol.ox.ac.uk>,
<rhubner at molbiol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>Hi there,
> re:PRIMER email contact I would like to add that I forwarded a bug report to
>them and never heard again from them (this bug appeared in the VMS versions
>running at Oxford and Freiburg - hi, again Christoph, but not in a Unix flavor
>at the Unniversity of Manitoba...) but bench work is surely more important and
>I left the story as is...
>Greetings, Roland
>
What was the bug? In the dim, dark VAX days of my past, I recall that
the program gave wierd floating point responses if a certain VAX CC
switch wasn't set when compiling the program. If that was your
problem, here is the relevant post dug up from the bionet archives:
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In article <1992May15.170341.201612 at uctvax.uct.ac.za>,
jds at uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
>Dear molbionetters,
>>Has anyone had success compiling Primer 0.5 (Whitehead institute) under
>VMS V5.4? I have FTP'd the files 2 times and even got a friend to send
>the files on disk. Here is what I have done and the results obtained:
>>I have used the makefile.com provided with Primer as well as creating my
>own. The makefile I create is below:
>> $ set def uct7:[gcg.primer]
> $ cc/list PRIMER
> $ cc/list TEXT
> $ link/Exec=primer primer,text
>[remainder deleted]
Joe, and others..
I have the following LINK LIBRARIES defined in my login.com file:
$! The following commands define my C programming link libraries:
$ DEFINE LNK$LIBRARY SYS$LIBRARY:VAXCCURSE
$ DEFINE LNK$LIBRARY_1 SYS$LIBRARY:VAXCRTLG !<-- (this is important -JHN)
$ DEFINE LNK$LIBRARY_2 SYS$LIBRARY:VAXCRTL
In Primer's MAKEVAX.COM file, change the following:
$compile:
$ cc'opt' PRIMER
$ cc'opt' TEXT
$! ----------
to:
$compile:
$ cc'opt' /G_FLOAT PRIMER
$ cc'opt' /G_FLOAT TEXT
$! ----------
Then execute the MAKEVAX.COM file, and everything should work out wrt
the floating points (well it just did with me).
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John Nash (nash at nrcbsa.bio.nrc.ca)
Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada,
Yet another Aussie-in-exile ;-)
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