Just to note that I had the same experience as Ed on Ubuntu, for builds post 
6409 - without ccp4 in the path, it would not work

Cheers
Oli
On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:27:15 +0800, Paul Emsley <pems...@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> 
wrote:

>On 11/11/2016 03:32, Edwin Pozharski wrote:
>> I had an opportunity to build coot executable on a fresh ubuntu box.  It 
>> compiles fine after
>> you install few dependencies but I noticed the following:
>>
>> 1) it seems that coot won't work without CCP4.
>
>"Without CCP4" is slightly ambiguous.  Let's imagine that you mean "have CCP4 
>setup and
>added to the path"
>
>> It won't load mtz files - complained that
>> the map file wasn't proper format.
>
>That is not the intention.  I routinely use coot without having setup CCP4.
>
>Was it complaining about the extension?
>
>> 2) Even after I installed CCP4, it wants me to have ccp4 configuration 
>> script sourced or it
>> won't refine even amino acids in real space.
>
>Hmm...  That sounds like the Refmac monomer library is not correctly installed 
>then and is
>consistent with 1).
>
>> I was under impression that in the past
>> standard amino acids were accessible even if ccp4 monomer libraries cannot 
>> be reached.
>
>A typical coot build will try to find monomer library entries in 
>$prefix/lib/data/monomers
>
>> Maybe it changed.
>
>Not intentionally.
>
>> None of this is a big deal, just surprising.  Obviously, having coot 
>> installed without ccp4
>> is a bit unusual, although having a standalone coot (say, for teaching 
>> purposes on a flash
>> drive) is not completely unimaginable.
>
>:-)
>
>Paul.

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