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machine setup fails on macbook #183

Closed mabarnes closed 3 months ago

mabarnes commented 4 months ago

I am running on a Mac, and In machine setup options, I obtain the following error when entering the julia executable path.

Please enter the path to the Julia executable to be used ['/opt/local/bin/julia']:

/opt/local/bin/julia realpath: illegal option -- s usage: realpath [-q] [path ...]

I can install manually but would be nice to get the script working. Maybe I'm not understanding something I should be doing?

johnomotani commented 4 months ago

Looks like a bug caused by realpath being different on Mac and Linux. Sorry I didn't have a Mac to test on! Will have a look...

mabarnes commented 3 months ago

I can confirm that the realpath issue was resolved with the change to the machine-setup-macos branch. It is now replaced with the error:

Do you want to download, and compile a local version of HDF5 (if you do not do this, you will be given the option to choose an HDF5 library to link later)? [y]/n

--2024-03-13 11:55:58-- https://www.hdfgroup.org/package/hdf5-1-14-3-tar-bz2/?wpdmdl=18469 Resolving www.hdfgroup.org (www.hdfgroup.org)... 162.214.184.54 Connecting to www.hdfgroup.org (www.hdfgroup.org)|162.214.184.54|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘hdf5-1.14.3.tar.bz2’

hdf5-1.14.3.tar.bz2 [ <=> ] 3.76K --.-KB/s in 0s

2024-03-13 11:56:00 (17.8 MB/s) - ‘hdf5-1.14.3.tar.bz2’ saved [3850]

tar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format

I have tried manually unzipping the hdf5-1.14.3.tar.bz2 file, but it does not appear to recognise it as a bzip2 file format. not sure if this is something mac-specific

johnomotani commented 3 months ago

I get the same error now when I try to download and compile on Linux, so I suspect it's an issue with the www.hdf5group.org server :-(

johnomotani commented 3 months ago

They've changed their download link slightly. I'll update this PR to fix. Why they insist trying to force people to download interactively from their web page, I don't know. I have to search through the HTML page source to find the actual download link!

johnomotani commented 3 months ago

Should be fixed now on #184. I wonder what the next error will be!

johnomotani commented 3 months ago

Ah, I found a proper download link for HDF5 now! There were a couple of forum threads requesting it from around 2020 that I never found before. It's possible to download both source code and binaries from under https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/ which is useful to know :-)