[FLASH-USERS] installing flmake (was "changing maxblocks")

[Slavin, Jonathan]

Hi Scott,

What happens when you do "python setup.py install --user" in the tools
directory?  How is python installed on your system?  Also, what's your
operating system/distribution.

Jon

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Scott Feister <sfeister at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jon, Roman, and the greater community,
>
> Does anybody know the full sequence of steps for getting flmake working on
> a fresh installation? The "cd tools; python setup.py install --python" step
> from the webpage does not seem to suffice in getting it up and running on
> my machine. The setup instructions for FLASH were *very *good and I got
> FLASH working in "no time", but I cannot get flmake to run at all for the
> life of me. Are there more detailed setup instructions somewhere that I am
> missing?
>
> My impression from talking with people and looking at old user forum
> discussions is that flmake development is basically on hold, but that it
> still should work (and could be very useful) with the right setup in FLASH
> 4.3. In any case, given the support status it would probably be helpful to
> temper this line in the manual
> <http://flash.uchicago.edu/site/flashcode/user_support/tools4b/usersguide/flmake/index.html>:
> "It is highly recommended that both novice and advanced users adopt flmake
> as it enables reproducible research while simultaneously making FLASH
> easier to use." Kind of confusing for a new user!
>
> Best,
>
> Scott (Ohio State)
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Slavin, Jonathan <jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu
> > wrote:
>
>> ​Hi Roman,
>>
>> Yes, I did copy the source simulation tree before running. setup.  I
>> found out a while back that I needed to do that otherwise my changes didn't
>> get picked up.  I do like flmake, especially for the ease of separating
>> runs and tracking changes.  It's too bad that it doesn't seem to be
>> supported currently.
>>
>> Jon​
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:00 PM, <flash-users-request at flash.uchicago.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Btw, I'm not sure how you use flmake now, but the preferred work-flow
>>> with flmake  would be to to make a copy of the simulation directory
>>> (e.g.  $FLASH_SOURCE/source/Simulation/SimulationMain/Sedov) under
>>> ./simulations/Sedov in your working directory,  before running setup.
>>> This way all subsequent changes of the source files occur locally and
>>> not under the FLASH tree.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ________________________________________________________
>> Jonathan D. Slavin                 Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
>> jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu       60 Garden Street, MS 83
>> phone: (617) 496-7981       Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
>> cell: (781) 363-0035             USA
>> ________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>


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Jonathan D. Slavin                 Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
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phone: (617) 496-7981       Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
cell: (781) 363-0035             USA
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