Re: [AMOS-help] runAmos problems on MacOS

[Florent A. <flo...@gm...>]

Impressive! It works!
Thanks Mike,
Florent



On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Michael Schatz <ms...@cs...> wrote:

> Hi Florent,
>
> This is because of subtle differences in how /bin/sh and echo work on Mac
> and Linux. Note the value in a ($shell) command is executed with "/bin/sh
> -c"
>
> Here is what I get on my linux box:
>
> $ /bin/sh -c "echo -n `echo "scale=3; 1 - $MIN_IDENT / 100" | bc`"
> .020
>
> And on my mac:
>
> $ /bin/sh -c "echo -n `echo "scale=3; 1 - $MIN_IDENT / 100" | bc`"
> -n .020
>
> However, this is consistent on both:
>
> $ /bin/sh -c "/bin/echo -n `echo "scale=3; 1 - $MIN_IDENT / 100" | bc`"
> .020
>
> I suggest you update Minimo with /bin/echo -n instead of just echo -n.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Florent Angly <flo...@gm...>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have found that the runAmos program produces different results on
>> Linux and MacOS causing some pipelines to fail on MacOS. I have a simply
>> here that demonstrate a problem I encounter on MacOS. Both on Linux and
>> MacOS, the following command (taken from Minimo) generates the expected
>> result:
>> > $MIN_IDENT=98
>> > $ echo -n `echo "scale=3; 1 - $MIN_IDENT / 100" | bc`
>> > .020
>>
>> Now put this in a pipeline and run it:
>> > #!/opt/local/AMOS/bin/runAmos -C
>> > MIN_IDENT  = 98
>> > MAX_OVL_ERROR  = $(shell echo -n `echo "scale=3; 1 - $(MIN_IDENT\) /
>> > 100" | bc`)
>> > 10: echo "MAX_OVL_ERROR='$(MAX_OVL_ERROR)'"
>>
>> The log file contains this information:
>> > !!! 2010-07-22 13:04:40  Started by florent@UNKNOWN on Thu Jul 22
>> > 13:04:40 2010
>> > !!! 2010-07-22 13:04:40  Running: echo -n `echo "scale=3; 1 - 98 /
>> > 100" | bc`
>> > !!! 2010-07-22 13:04:40  Doing step 10
>> > !!! 2010-07-22 13:04:40  Running: echo "MAX_OVL_ERROR='-n .020 '"
>> > MAX_OVL_ERROR='-n .020 '
>> > !!! 2010-07-22 13:04:40  Done! Elapsed time:0d 0h 0m 0s
>> > !!! END - Elapsed time: 0d 0h 0m 0s
>>
>> '.020' was expected but I got '-n .020 '. That looks like a bug in
>> runAmos on MacOS. Any idea how to fix this?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Florent
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint
>> What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone?
>> Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first
>> _______________________________________________
>> AMOS-help mailing list
>> AMO...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amos-help
>>
>
>