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.