[BCP] The BAC example

Jack Croucher j.s.croucher at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 22:54:20 EST 2011


Thanks Ted, yes that's exactly it - I was looking in the wrong directory.
Sorry to waste your time on something like that.

Thanks again for your quick response!

Cheers,

Jack

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu> wrote:

> It looks to me like you've probably done a VPATH build, i.e., you did
> something like
>
> cd Bcp
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure
> make
>
> But then you're looking for the Makefile in Bcp/examples/BAC instead
> of Bcp/build/examples/BAC. If that doesn't fix it, you could post the
> exact commands you used for the whole build sequence.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ted
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Jack Croucher <j.s.croucher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I'm trying to run the BAC example which comes with BCP (1.2.2). I've done
> my
> > best to follow the steps outlined in Francois Margot's "BAC: A BCP based
> > Branch-and-Cut Example" but the makefile for the BAC example (or any of
> the
> > examples for that matter) do not seem to be created. When I run "make" in
> > the BAC directory I get the following error (since there is no makefile):
> >
> > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> >
> > It was my understanding that this makefile was generated automatically
> when
> > I configured the package? The last of the configure output is:
> >
> > ...
> > config.status: creating Makefile
> > config.status: creating src/Makefile
> > config.status: creating test/BAC/Makefile
> > config.status: creating examples/BAC/Makefile
> > config.status: creating examples/MCF-1/Makefile
> > config.status: creating examples/MCF-2/Makefile
> > config.status: creating examples/MCF-3/Makefile
> > config.status: creating bcp_addlibs.txt
> > config.status: creating inc/config_bcp.h
> > config.status: executing depfiles commands
> > configure: Configuration of Bcp successful
> > configure: Creating VPATH links for data files
> > configure: Configuration of Bcp successful
> >
> > So it appears (at least to me) to have created the makefile, but I can
> only
> > see makefile.in in the BAC directory. "make test" seems to run fine and
> > generate a solution.
> >
> > Any help you could provide would be great as I'd love to play around with
> > this example. Hopefully I'm just doing something stupid, as I'm
> relatively
> > new to Linux and Bcp, so I do apologise for taking up your time on
> something
> > which should be pretty trivial. As far as I can tell I've configured both
> > the /build and /buildg directories correctly and used "make" and "make
> > install" in both.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Jack
> >
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