Intallation error

Alloy Theoretic Automated Toolkit (ATAT)
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Hi I got following error when I tried to install ATAT
./foolproof.sh /home/bipin/bin/ "g++"
set: Variable name must begin with a letter.
make: *** [makefile:9: all] Error 1
Thank you

2

Did you edit the foolproof.sh or any other file before installation? Sorry I cannot reproduce that error.

3

You could try
bash -v ./foolproof.sh /home/bipin/bin/ “g++”
to trace where the error occurs.

4

I found this following error:

./foolproof.sh /home/subhadeep/softwares/atat/bin/ “g++”
/bin/csh cannot be found. Please install it or create a symbolic link from /bin/csh to /usr/bin/tcsh , if installed.
make: *** [makefile:9: all] Error 1

5

Thanks then your solution is create a symbolic link from /bin/csh to /usr/bin/tcsh

ln -s /usr/bin/tcsh /bin/csh

If you don’t have permission, I’ll look for a workaround.

6

If you don’t have permission to create the symlink from my previous post, you could patch the code as follows:

cd root_of_atat_dir
perl -pi.bak -e 's+#!/bin/csh+#!/bin/tcsh+g;' src/* glue/*/* >& /dev/null

Let me know if this works - I’ll make it automatic for the next update.

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Thank you very much for your help. Let me explain the steps I followed:

  1. After downloading, I untar ‘atat3_36.tar’ file using the command: tar -xvf atat3_36.tar. It makes a directory named ‘atat’.

  2. I entered the ‘atat’ folder and opened the ‘makefile’. At the first line of the ‘makefile’, I changed “e BINDIR=$(HOME)/bin/” to “BINDIR=/home/subhadeep/softwares/atat/bin/” (here, I made a folder ‘/bin’ inside the ‘atat’ folder. So, the path of the newly made ‘bin’ folder is ‘/home/subhadeep/softwares/atat/bin/’).

  3. Then I typed ‘make’. It shows the error:

    ./foolproof.sh /home/subhadeep/softwares/atat/bin/ “g++”
    /bin/csh cannot be found. Please install it or create a symbolic link from /bin/csh to /usr/bin/tcsh , if installed.
    make: *** [makefile:9: all] Error 1

I checked the /usr/bin folder, the tcsh file doesn’t exist there.