Strip-it installation help OS X

[Jason Greenwald]

Dear All,

I have successfully compiled and installed openbabel 2.3.2 on both Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS and OS X 10.6.8. In both cases (ubuntu and OS X) I chose the installation directory to be /usr/local/openbabel. However, when I subsequently try to compile strip-it I run into problems.

On ubuntu, compiling Strip-It runs without noticeable errors but the "make test" returns a handful of failures. When strip-it is run from the command-line, it complains that it cannot find libopenbabel.so.4 even though I have set all of he recommended environment variables as well as trying to change the BABEL_LIBDIR to point to the location of libopenbabel.so.4 (in this case /usr/local/openbabel/lib)

On OS X, the strip-it cmake fails to find the openbabel installation. Once again, I have tried many variations of environment variables for the paths (including the ones recommended on the Strip-it installation manual).

If there is anything obvious that I am missing then please let me know, and if there is any other information that I can give to help troubleshoot this then I will provide it.

Thank you for your help.

Jason

[Jason Greenwald]

Solved! (mostly)

On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 9:13:22 AM UTC+1, Jason Greenwald wrote:

On OS X, the strip-it cmake fails to find the openbabel installation. Once again, I have tried many variations of environment variables for the paths (including the ones recommended on the Strip-it installation manual).

I realized after comparing the Ubuntu and OS X installations that the "make install" on OS X did not put copies of the include, library and data files in the /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/share directories. I simply made links to those in the /usr/local/openbabel path and everything worked.

However, there are still a handful of tests that fail, specifically:

232:Test235

233:Test236

533:Test536

541:Test544

542:Test545

543:Test546

544:Test547

Are these perhaps tests that should fail? I am not the end user of strip-it and so I do not know if the regular expressions that it fails to find are due to bugs in the program, errors in the input files or a compilation error.

Thanks for any help.

-Jason