[esp-r] Building 11.9 on Ubuntu: Creating binary plant databases [plantc.db1] does not complete

[Lars O. Grobe]

Hi all,

this is my first email to the list. I am an architect with some deeper 
interest in building performance simulation, especially with some 
background in Radiance and related tools, currently focussing a bit more 
on ESP-r.

I am just trying to build esp-r 11.9 on my Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64 system.

I am calling the install script as such:

Install -d $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr --force --xml --X11 --gcc3-fpe --silent

As I am on a recent Ubuntu installation, my gcc is 4.4, not 4.1.

Unfortunately I have experienced that the build kind of hangs when 
installing the standard databases. The last lines of output from the 
install script indicate:

  Installing standard databases. This may take some time.
    - Removing existing databases... Done.
    - Creating binary materials databases... Done.
    - Creating binary event profiles databases ... Done.
    - Creating binary plant databases [plantc.db1]...

There is no further progress, pdb is running for hours at 100% CPU load.

Another side-note, I found what looks like a limitation on the path 
string during build:

make[2]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/home/lars/packaging/esp-r/espr-11.9/src/lib'
gfortran  -I../include -I../shocc -I/usr/local/include 
-I../cetc/h3kreports -DLIN -DX11    -fno-automatic  -DGCC4 -c 
esru_libNonGTK.F	
../include/espinstalldir.h:3.18:
     Included at esru_libNonGTK.F:3931:

        instpath = '/home/lars/packaging/esp-r/espr-11.9/debian/tmp/usr/e
                   1
Error: Unterminated character constant beginning at (1)

The instpath string variable obviously got cut off. This will never 
appear for people building ESP-r with a target such as /usr or /opt, but 
those trying to work with a deeper directory tree will find the build to 
fail.

Cheers, Lars.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3740 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Url : http://lists.strath.ac.uk/archives/esp-r/attachments/20101103/1c8a7444/attachment.bin