Errors installing on mac OS 13.6

[McNew, Sabrina - (mcnew)]

Hi: 

I'm trying to install admb for use with another program in R. I have Xcode 14.3.1 installed with command line tools. I followed the instructions on this page: https://www.admb-project.org/downloads/admb-13.2/BuildingSourceUnix.html

I keep getting a persistent error during the "make" command that ends on an "Error 2."  I can't find any information about this particular error online. Can you help? 

Thanks for any advice,

Sabrina 

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[Johnoel Ancheta]

Hi Sabrina -

I can't seem to duplicate the error that you have.  Can you try downloading ADMB from github?

% git clone https://github.com/admb-project/admb.git

% cd admb

% make clean

% make

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On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 9:46 AM McNew, Sabrina - (mcnew) <mc...@arizona.edu> wrote:

Hi both: 

Thanks so much for all the suggestions. No success but I've got some alternatives to using admb that I'll pursue instead.

Best,

Sabrina 

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Or just download and build an older version

https://www.admb-project.org/downloads/

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 8:15 AM Johnoel Ancheta <joh...@hawaii.edu> wrote:

flex is pretty outdated. using a terminal, try to update it...

% sudo xcode-select --install

it that does nothing, you have two options:

1. Install and build ADMB with MacPorts (https://www.macports.org/) - recommended

2. Use a ADMB Docker container, read the link below for information and quickstart procedure. 

https://www.admb-project.org/downloads/admb-13.2/quickstart-docker-unix.html

I think that i do have an older machine (somewhere..) that matches yours.  if I can find it, i will try

to find out it fails for that version.

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 7:31 AM McNew, Sabrina - (mcnew) <mc...@arizona.edu> wrote:

13.6.7. It's the last version that's "compatible" with my 2017 computer.

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what macos version are u using?

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 7:18 AM McNew, Sabrina - (mcnew) <mc...@arizona.edu> wrote:

Hi Johnoel and Dave: 

Thanks for your helpful advice. Unfortunately, I'm still getting the same errors. 

Dave identified the hangup as something in this flex command: 

flex -v -w -o../../build/tpl2rem/lex.yy.c tpl2rem.lex

I looked into whether I could make it work in isolation. It runs and creates the output file lex.yy.c but the output file is empty. It doesn't return any info in console, even when I take out the "-w" flag (which suppresses warnings). However, if lex.yy.c exists already in the directory it does throw an error that it couldn't make the output file. 

I wonder if it could be an issue with my Xcode (which includes flex)? Is there a certain version of flex that is needed to run this command? I had to install a slightly older version of Xcode (14.3.1) because of the age of my computer. If you can tell me what version of flex you're using maybe I can find a way to install that one. 

I wrote the output of the make command to a text file. It seems like it runs along as it should until it gets to this flex command, and then presumably because the output's not working right it creates the broken pipe error. 

Any other suggestions are very welcome and thanks for your time. 

Sabrina 

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