[Coin-ipopt] an error during building the external HSL

Mon Jan 30 23:03:28 EST 2006

Hi Bruce,

It seems that you downloaded the Harwell subroutine source code
incorrectly.  The files seem to contain HTML stuff.

If done correctly, the files should start with some comment lines (where
the first letter in each line is a star or a 'C'), and then something like

      SUBROUTINE MA27ID(ICNTL,CNTL)

etc.

You probably need to try to download the code again from the Harwell
webpages.  This can be a bit tricky; if I remember correctly, you need to
basically click on the download button (or something like this), and the
Fortran code will show up in our browers window.  After that, you choose
"Save as", and safe it as ma27ad.f (or whatever subroutine you obtain).

I hope this helps,

Andreas

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Bruce wrote:

> hello, everyone
>
> I just followed the manual of IPOPT that I did the configuration and building under CYGWIN of WIN2000.
> And the configuration is successful, the building of BLAS is also OK.
> But I met the error when building HSL.
> The error messsage I got is:
>
> ma27ad.f:1:
>    ï»¿<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>    ^
> Invalid first character at (^) [info -f g77 M LEX]
> ma27ad.f:2:
>    <HTML><HEAD>
>    ^
> Invalid first character at (^) [info -f g77 M LEX]
> ma27ad.f:3:
>    <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></HEAD>
>    ^
> Invalid first character at (^) [info -f g77 M LEX]
> ma27ad.f:4:
>    <BODY><PRE>* *******************************************************************
>    ^
> Invalid first character at (^) [info -f g77 M LEX]
> ma27ad.f:2037:
>    </PRE></BODY></HTML>
>    ^
> Invalid first character at (^) [info -f g77 M LEX]
> make: *** [ma27ad.o] Error 1
>
> I do lack knowledge in Fortran that I am not sure what is the matter with the building error.
> Any of your suggestion will be helpful
> thanks a lot!