[ESPResSo-devel] Installation problem - FFTW

[Tristan Bereau]

Dear all,

I have encountered a few problems trying to install Espresso 2.1.2j *without* 
FFTW. It seems that even if the myconfig.h doesn't contain any FFTW-required 
feature, Espresso complains that it can't find FFTW. Here's some details:

After doing ./configure or even ./configure --without-fftw, 'make' will produce 
the following error:
***
depbase=`echo main.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
        mpicc -D 'MYCONFIG_H="myconfig.h"' -I. -I.. -Iconfig     
-finline-limit=1000000 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -floop-optimize 
-ffast-math -Wall -Wno-unused-function -O3 -march=i486 -m32 -fast  -MT main.o 
-MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o main.o ../main.c &&\
        mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
depbase=`echo config.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
        mpicc -D 'MYCONFIG_H="myconfig.h"' -I. -I.. -Iconfig     
-finline-limit=1000000 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -floop-optimize 
-ffast-math -Wall -Wno-unused-function -O3 -march=i486 -m32 -fast  -MT config.o 
-MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o config.o ../config.c &&\
        mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
../config.c:93:10: error: operator '==' has no left operand
../config.c:95:12: error: operator '==' has no left operand
***

I've found out that config.c at lines 93,95 contain the following piece of code:
***
#if FFTW == 2
  Tcl_AppendResult(interp, "{ FFTW2 } ", (char *) NULL);
#elif FFTW == 3
  Tcl_AppendResult(interp, "{ FFTW3 } ", (char *) NULL);
***

This is a bit odd as I've explicitly requested Espresso *not* to install FFTW. 
I realized that this problem only comes up for the latest version of Espresso 
2.1.2j. Indeed, the Espresso 2.0.5e happily compiles with the same myconfig.h 
file and configure flags. 

I am not in a desperate need to install Espresso 2.1.2j right now, but thought 
I'd point this out to the Espresso team.

Best,
Tristan