[EMBOSS] acd file problem

Peter Rice pmr at ebi.ac.uk
Fri Feb 4 18:16:41 UTC 2005


Alan Bleasby wrote:

>>If I delete the 'embassy: "phylip"' line, it seems to work.
>>What am I doing wrong?
> 
> 
> This problem was caused by some unavoidable updates to
> the embassy applications between releases. The fix
> is to recompile emboss using the 'ajacd.c' file
> in the:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/pub/EMBOSS/patchfiles/
> 
> directory.

The embassy attribute was added so that "wossname" nkows how to find EMBASSY 
and non-EMBASSY programs. It has no other effect on the running of programs, 
so deleting it is a safe alternative.

regards,

Peter Rice




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