an ugly hack is to simply create a soft link to the i686-m64 directory (as i
recently did on a new 64 bit machine)

Miles

2008/8/13 Sara Stymne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Hi!
>
> When we installed SRILM and Moses on our 64-bit Ubuntu machine we had
> some troubles with getting the machine type right. What solved it in the
> end was to hack the machine-type script (found in srilm/sbin), so that
> it gave the correct machine type, from i686 to i686-m64:
>
>    else if (`uname -m` == x86_64) then
>        set MACHINE_TYPE = i686-m64
>        #set MACHINE_TYPE = i686
>
> After doing that we could compile SRILM without specifying the
> MACHINE_TYPE.
>
> /Sara
>
>
> Llio Humphreys skrev:
> > Dear Josh,
> > thanks for the links.  I had already found this information, and it
> > helped me compile SRILM on the Mac.  Here, the problem was finding the
> > most appropriate Makefile for the Linux/Ubuntu machine I'm working on:
> > amd athlon x2 dual core x86_64.  $SRILM/common.Makefile.i686_m64
> > seemed the most appropriate, and the CC and  CXX variables are
> > correct, but I still ended up with a lot of errors, unfortunately.
> > Llio
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Josh Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >> You can also check out the SRILM documentation:
> >> http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/manpages/
> >> FAQ: http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/manpages/srilm-faq.7.html
> >>
> >> Or search the SRILM mailing list archives:
> >> http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/mail-archive/srilm-user/
> >>
> >> -Josh
> >>
> >> On 13 Aug 2008, at 13:37, Anung Ariwibowo wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Llio,
> >>>
> >>> I can compile SRILM in Linux Ubuntu without problem. Can you post the
> >>> error message here, maybe we can help.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Anung
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Llio Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>> Dear Josh/Hieu,
> >>> many thanks for your replies.  The default shell is bash, and updating
> >>> the .profile file worked - thanks for that tip.  I look forward to
> >>> hearing more from you about the ./model/extract.0-0.o.part* problem.
> >>> My apologies for my ignorance of Unix matters: I'd like to think of
> >>> myself as a newbie rather than one who is averse to learning about
> >>> these things, and the further information you have provided has been
> >>> useful and interesting.  Hieu mentioned that Anung Ariwibowo got Moses
> >>> to work when he transferred to a Linux machine.  A colleague has
> >>> kindly let me borrow a Linux/Ubuntu machine, but I have already run
> >>> into problems compiling SRILM!  So, I'll see if Eric Nichols's
> >>> packages will take care of that:
> >>> http://cl.naist.jp/~eric-n/ubuntu-nlp/dists/feisty/nlp/<http://cl.naist.jp/%7Eeric-n/ubuntu-nlp/dists/feisty/nlp/>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Llio
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 8/13/08, Josh Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Llio,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> you may have already received my email on the following problem when
> >>>>> building the language model:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Executing: cat ./model/extract.0-0.o.part* > ./model/extract.0-0.o
> >>>>> cat: ./model/extract.0-0.o.part*: No such file or directory
> >>>>> Exit code: 1
> >>>>>
> >>>>  That's building the phrase table, not the language model. It seems
> like
> >>>> several people on the list are having problems with this step, so I'm
> >>>> going
> >>>> to take a look at the training process and post something to the list
> in
> >>>> the
> >>>> next day or two.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> 1. You mention that Moses does not use environment variables.
> >>>>> However, in order to get SRILM to work, I found it necessary to
> create
> >>>>> environment variables and pass these on to SRILM's make:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> make SRILM=$PWD MACHINE_TYPE=macosx
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/Users/lliohumphreys/MT/MOSESSUITE/srilm:/Users/lliohumphreys/MT/MOSESSUITE/srilm/bin:/Users/lliohumphreys/MT/MOSESSUITE/srilm/bin/macosx:/sw/bin/gawk
> >>>>> MANPATH=/Users/lliohumphreys/MT/MOSESSUITE/srilm/man
> >>>> LC_NUMERIC=C
> >>>>> In addition, I was also required to type in the following command for
> >>>>> moses-scripts:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> export
> >>>>
> SCRIPTS_ROOTDIR=/Users/lliohumphreys/MT/MOSESSUITE/bin/moses-scripts/scripts-20080811-1801
> >>>>>
> >>>>  Sorry, I should have been more clear. Moses itself, the decoder that
> >>>> loads
> >>>> a trained phrase table and language model and translates text, is a
> >>>> self-contained command-line program that doesn't require environment
> >>>> variables.
> >>>>
> >>>>  Your first example is compiling SRILM. This is not part of the Moses
> >>>> toolkit: it's a toolkit of its own for language modeling and a ton of
> >>>> other
> >>>> stuff. We use it as one of two possible integrated language models
> (the
> >>>> other is IRSTLM) with Moses.
> >>>>
> >>>>  Your second example is part of the training regime. Yes, there is
> some
> >>>> use
> >>>> of the SCRIPTS_ROOTDIR in the
> >>>> train-factored-phrase-model.perl, but for most training
> >>>> support scripts that come with moses there is a flag that lets you
> >>>> specify
> >>>> SCRIPTS_ROOTDIR at the command line instead of storing it as an
> >>>> environment
> >>>> variable. In train-factored-phrase-model it's "-scripts-root-dir",
> which
> >>>> I
> >>>> think you've actually used in one of your other emails.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> If I open a new terminal and echo these variables, most of them are
> >>>>> blank, and PATH just gives the default bin paths.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So, how do I make them permanent?  I assume that if I want to use
> >>>>> Moses again, it needs to have access to these variables?  How can I
> >>>>> ensure that I can close the terminal, go home, open a new terminal
> the
> >>>>> next day and get Moses working again?  A colleague suggested I update
> >>>>> the .bashrc file to update each new terminal session with these
> >>>>> environment variables. However, my Mac system does not appear to have
> >>>>> a .bashrc system as a default, and when I created one in my home
> >>>>> directory and opened a new terminal, it did not access the .bashrc
> >>>>> file.
> >>>>>
> >>>>  Here's some info on environment variables on the Mac, found with a
> >>>> quick
> >>>> Google search:
> >>>>  http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/24/bash.html
> >>>>
> >>>>  I tried it with .profile, that worked fine. Are you sure you're set
> to
> >>>> use
> >>>> the bash shell? Try ' echo $SHELL ' in Terminal.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> 2. You say that you ran the decoder on your laptop just fine, but had
> >>>>> to change a few scripts for training.  I have very basic knowledge of
> >>>>> Unix systems and installing open-source software: would it be
> possible
> >>>>> for you to detail the changes you did to the scripts to get it to run
> >>>>> on a Mac?  Although I need this information urgently, it may also be
> >>>>> useful for other students who are installing Moses on a Mac and who
> >>>>> may also have basic knowledge of Unix installation procedures.
> >>>>>
> >>>>  I'll look into this. Mac isn't really the platform of choice for
> >>>> training a
> >>>> Moses model and I do most of my work on linux. If I recall correctly,
> an
> >>>> Intel-based Mac should be easier to get working than a PowerPC one.
> The
> >>>> *decoder* does work on my Intel-based laptop, but I haven't run a full
> >>>> training setup locally in some time -- most of the time we're working
> >>>> with
> >>>> so much data that I use a cluster of linux machines instead of my Mac.
> >>>>
> >>>>  As a word of caution: Moses isn't an out-of-the box translation
> >>>> solution
> >>>> for end users. It's research software undergoing active development,
> so
> >>>> almost every user -- on any platform --  will need to muck around in
> the
> >>>> scripts at some point, or face a compile error or runtime crash. The
> >>>> ability
> >>>> to deal with unix/linux command line tools, and debug code and scripts
> >>>> when
> >>>> necessary, is really important. That being said, I'll see what I can
> do
> >>>> about highlighting where the scripts might have problems on the Mac.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> 3. My final question: which is embarrasingly basic...can I use the
> one
> >>>>> installation of Moses for different corpora, or do I need to do a
> >>>>> separate installation for each one?  Can I have separate
> installations
> >>>>> of SRILM, Giza and mckls, or should they all reference the same
> >>>>> libraries?
> >>>>>
> >>>>  All you need to do to have moses use different corpora is point it to
> a
> >>>> different moses.ini file. Assuming you have compiled moses with
> support
> >>>> for
> >>>> the language model specified in the file (IRSTLM or SRILM), it will
> >>>> translate. You should only need one copy of giza, mkcls, irst/srilm,
> and
> >>>> moses. The code stays the same, it's the data model that's different.
> >>>>
> >>>>  -Josh
> >>>>
> >>>>
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