Scheduling not working (see workaround)

[CatChenal]

Issue won't be resolved despite commit 69c54f5 (finalizing crontab creation), because of existing Stable-MCCE issue #283.

[CatChenal]

Workaround for using the installation of Stable-MCCE on our server, which has a differently compiled version of delphi.

Context:

• The benchmarking app is creating a crontab by setting appropriate environment paths (mcce, conda, app).
• The path to mcce on the server cannot be used because of missing python dependencies.
• The conda-packaged Stable-MCCE cannot compile Delphi because the fortran compiler needs downgrading (or Delphi updated to current fortran).

Steps to a working Delphi

Using a conda environment, e.g. named "mcb", which contains both the conda-packaged mcce and the benchmarking app, do the following:

 1. (base) >conda activate mcb
 2. (mcb) >cd $(dirname $(which delphi))      # go to delphi executable location
 3. (mcb) >ls -l delphi | cut -c 1            # if output is "l", it's already linked
    - If you got "l" in step 3:  run ls -l delphi to verify it is linked to server Stable-MCCE/bin/delphi
    - If not: proceed with 4, else go to 6
 4. (mcb) >mv delphi delphi_mcb               # rename the file or delete it
 5. (mcb) >ln -s /path/to/Stable-MCCE/bin/delphi .
 6. (mcb) >delphi                             # test delphi in your mcb env
    - You should see delphi's "welcome screen" and a message saying it cannot continue without input: all is fine!
    - If not: either post a comment here: these workaround steps may need amending, or retry all the steps (or both).