[EMBOSS] ehmmbuild does not support -o and -hmmfile together

Peter Rice pmr at ebi.ac.uk
Fri Jun 26 19:40:07 UTC 2009


jason zhang wrote:
>  >ehmmbuild -auto -stdout -alignfile globins50.msf -nhmm globins50
> -hmmfile globin.hmm -o out
> Error: Unable to open file 'out/globin.hmm' for output
> Died: ehmmbuild terminated: Bad value for '-hmmfile' with -auto defined
> 
> It seems that -o is treated as a directory. But the document/acd lists it
> as outfile.

It will work with a different commandline order. With -o after -hmmfile 
it is incorrectly assumed to be -odirectory (it should be an ambiguous 
qualifier).

This is fixed in the July 15th release of EMBOSS.

regards,

Peter Rice



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