poll_queue script / general csh usage

[phil-blain]

I tried using the poll_queue.csh script on my machine (ubuntu 14.04) and it fails ; it just outputs
end: No match.
However, when I run it under tcsh instead of plain csh (by changing the shebang), it works.

On my system I have the following links:
/bin/csh -> /etc/alternatives/csh -> /bin/bsd-csh

So it seems the csh version that comes with ubuntu is not capable of running this script. I think this should be documented, and maybe we should change the shebang for this script (and maybe others? from what I read csh has a reputation of being buggy...)

[phil-blain]

The line
set res="$?"
in the cice.test script is also causing a problem with my csh:
Illegal variable name.
It works fine with tcsh.

[apcraig]

Portability of these scripts is very important. If you switch the poll_queue script to tcsh, everything works fine? Any idea what's causing problems in that script for you?

Also, does $status work better than $? for you in your csh environment?

[phil-blain]

poll_queue.csh
Yes, if I use tcsh the poll_queue script works. From what I was able to deduce using set verbose, when using csh the line
foreach line ( "`cat suite.log`" )
in poll_queue has a problem with the line
rm -f *.f *.f90 *.d *.mod *.o /users/dor/afsg/phb/local/CICEDIRS/CICE_RUNS/cesium_intel_smoke_gx3_1x1_diag1_run1day.quick6.0/cice
in suite.log; if I remove that line in the log file, the script continues up to the first linking line in the log, where it errors with
Word too long.
If I also remove the linking line, it errors at the line
if ($? != 0) then
with Illegal variable name.

If I replace $? with $status it then works.

cice.test
If I replace $? with $status it works.

[phil-blain]

Also, on a different note:
The poll_queue script is only copied to the suite directory if the suite is created with the --report option (line 372 in cice.setup). I think this script is useful even if the user is not reporting the test results back to the wiki, so I think it should always be copied.

[apcraig]

This is being fixed in #300. I have replaced $? with $status and have refactored the poll_queue so it does not parse the suite.log file. I am also copying the poll_queue script into the test suite directory for all suites.

[apcraig]

PR #300 complete