[mesa-users] More basic questions

[Richard Townsend]

Hi Pam --

Have you installed the Xcode developer tools? These are needed to provide the 'make' program (and many other programs).

cheers,

Rich

On Mar 20, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Pam Rowden wrote:

> Hi Mesa-Users
> 
> Some more extremely basic questions!
> 
> 1. Working through the Sample exercise, I can edit the make/makefile to set MESA_DIR the path to my Mesa directory OK: in the second part, edit src/sample.f to set 'data_dir' to be the path to the mesa data directory, which part of sample.f am I supposed to be changing?
> 
> 2. In any of the examples, running the "mk" script results in the following:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> pam-rowdens-imac:~ pamrowden$ /Users/pamrowden/Documents/mesa/teststar/mk ; exit;
> /Users/pamrowden/Documents/mesa/teststar/mk: line 13: cd: make: No such file or directory
> /Users/pamrowden/Documents/mesa/teststar/mk: line 13: make: command not found
> 
> FAILED
> 
> logout
> 
> [Process completed]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Now, I can see the folder "make" sitting there in each case: how do I get round this problem?
> 
> Thank you in advance for any assistance you can give.
> 
> Pam
> 
> (Mac OS X, version 10.5.8)
> 
> 
> 
> From: Matteo Cantiello <cantiel at kitp.ucsb.edu>
> To: Pam Rowden <pam_rowden at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: "mesa-users at lists.sourceforge.net" <mesa-users at lists.sourceforge.net> 
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 12:36
> Subject: Re: [mesa-users] Problems setting up MESA
> 
> Hi Pam,
> as you can see in Rich's MESA SDK page http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=mesasdk
> setting the environmental variables requires a different syntax depending on the type of terminal shell installed on your computer.
> The default for most of OS installations is the BASH shell. So the commands that work for you are:
> 
> export MESASDK_ROOT=/Applications/mesasdk
> source $MESASDK_ROOT/bin/mesasdk_init.sh
> 
> Now, as Rich explains to avoid repeating these commands everytime a session is started, you want to add those two lines
> to a bash startup file. For example you can edit the file:
> 
> ~/.bash_profile 
> 
> and add those two lines there. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Matteo
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Pam Rowden wrote:
> 
>> Dear Mesa-Users
>> 
>> I am using Mac OS 10.5.8 and this will probably appear to be a very silly question.
>> 
>> MESA appears to have downloaded and installed itself correctly.
>> 
>> The mesasdk appropriate for my system has been downloaded.
>> 
>> During the process for installing mesa sdk as described on Rick Townsend's page, here is what I type and here is what I get out:
>> 
>> pam-rowdens-imac:~ pamrowden$ setenv MESASDK_ROOT /Applications/mesasdk
>> -bash: setenv: command not found
>> pam-rowdens-imac:~ pamrowden$ export MESASDK_ROOT=/Applications/mesasdk
>> pam-rowdens-imac:~ pamrowden$ source $MESASDK_ROOT/bin/mesasdk_init.csh
>> -bash: /Applications/mesasdk/bin/mesasdk_init.csh: line 26: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>> pam-rowdens-imac:~ pamrowden$ source $MESASDK_ROOT/bin/mesasdk_init.sh
>> pam-rowdens-imac:~ pamrowden$ 
>> 
>> This was typed into Terminal.
>> 
>> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Pam
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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