BBP on OS X Guide

Introduction

The Broadband Platform is compatible with Linux as well as OS X. However, due to some recent changes that Apple has made to their Xcode development tools, users on Mavericks (OS X 10.9) and Yosemite (OS X 10.10) will need to follow some additional steps to make the installation work. There are several installation issues or limitations related to the BBP on a Mac. The primary target operating system for BBP is Linux. Mac's OS is somewhat different environment, so installation on a Mac is a bit more complex.

The key Mac OS X-specific issues include:

• Mac must have a full Python installation that includes NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib and other packages
• Mac must have a gcc compiler environment, obtained through the XCODE software
• Mac must have a gcc fortran compiler installed, not available in XCODE. If you follow the instructions given in the Mac Ports section below, it will required administrator account privileges because these will be required to install the fortran compiler in the default location.
• Mac must have specialized Python language geographic project module pyproj installed
• Currently, the SDSU BBToolbox software is not compatible with the Mac environment. The code will crash and as a result the SDSU method does not pass all Unit tests when compiled on a Mac. This is a known, Mac-specific issue. The SDSU method passes all tests in the target Linux environment. We will provide a resolution to this know limitation of the Mac-version of the BBP, as soon as one is available.

Installation on Mac Yosemite

The following section describes one developers experiences installing Broadband Platform on their Mac running Yosemite OS. Here is the list of steps that we went through to successfully install and run BBP v15.3 on a Macbook Pro with 16GB Ram and 10GB of disk space running OS X v10.10.3 (Yosemite).

1. The default Mac python does not include all the required scientific python modules. For a well-integrated collection of scientific python modules for a Mac, we Installed anaconda python:
   • http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/install.html
2. Evaluate the Mac command line environment. Bring up terminal, and run Env and Which python

scecadms-MBP:~ maechlin$ env

TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=343.7
TERM_SESSION_ID=177D5090-D37D-4EFD-998D-9290C7DD789B
USER=maechlin
PATH=/Users/maechlin/anaconda/bin:/opt/local/gmt/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin
PWD=/Users/maechlin
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
XPC_FLAGS=0x0
XPC_SERVICE_NAME=0
SHLVL=1
HOME=/Users/maechlin
PYTHONPATH=/Users/maechlin/anaconda/lib

scecadms-MBP:~ maechlin$ which python

/Users/maechlin/anaconda/bin/python

1. Download the minimum set of required BBP files (6 file required currently) from the BBP web site:

• bbp-dist-15.3.0.tar.gz
• bbp-dist-15.3.0.tar.gz.md5
• labasin-velocity-model-15.3.0.tar.gz
• labasin-velocity-model-15.3.0.tar.gz.md5
• northridge-validation-15.3.0.tar.gz
• northridge-validation-15.3.0.tar.gz.md5

1. MD5 checksum is different on Mac than on Linux. Here's a way to do md5 sum check like this on a Mac:

scecadms-MBP:bbp_2015 maechlin$ cat bbp-dist-15.3.0.tar.gz.md5
24d88c5a22543409e89a22d64b451f85  bbp-dist-15.3.0.tar.gz
scecadms-MBP:bbp_2015 maechlin$ md5 bbp-dist-15.3.0.tar.gz
MD5 (bbp-dist-15.3.0.tar.gz) = 24d88c5a22543409e89a22d64b451f85
scecadms-MBP:bbp_2015 maechlin$ cat labasin-velocity-model-15.3.0.tar.gz.md5
f24dc01a6b1bf533b83067fbaa75c9d3  labasin-velocity-model-15.3.0.tar.gz
scecadms-MBP:bbp_2015 maechlin$ md5 labasin-velocity-model-15.3.0.tar.gz
MD5 (labasin-velocity-model-15.3.0.tar.gz) = f24dc01a6b1bf533b83067fbaa75c9d3
scecadms-MBP:bbp_2015 maechlin$ cat northridge-validation-15.3.0.tar.gz.md5
d4f396be3b29082841ddd4622f39cabb  northridge-validation-15.3.0.tar.gz
scecadms-MBP:bbp_2015 maechlin$ md5 northridge-validation-15.3.0.tar.gz
MD5 (northridge-validation-15.3.0.tar.gz) = d4f396be3b29082841ddd4622f39cab

1. Check xcode on Mac. Yosemite. XCODE Version 6.3

1. Check on Mac Python installation.Use anaconda because it includes many of the packages, such as numpy and matplotlib that are required by bbp.

Also, this version can be installed without root access, which I did in my Mac account User Maechlin

https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/

1. At command line which gcc, gcc -v

scecadms-MBP:~ maechlin$ which gcc

/usr/bin/gcc

scecadms-MBP:~ maechlin$ gcc -v

Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.49) (based on LLVM 3.6.0svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0
Thread model: posix

1. A BBP Issue is that XCODE does not installs a gcc fortran compiler. Details to install fortran

https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/HUGG/Installing+the+GNU+compilers+on+Mac+OS+X

Download the gcc compiler for Yosemite to the downloads direction. Then run as sudo to install gcc and gfortran.

gunzip gcc-4.9-bin.tar.gz
sudo tar xvf gcc-4.9-bin.tar -C /

This installs things in root, in /usr/local/…

1. Create the data structure defined in the installation guide.

/Users/Maechlin/Documents/dev/bbp_2015/15.3.0
../bbp_gf
../bbp_val
../bbp_data

1. Now, in the BBP src directory, the make file builds without error.

1. At this stage, the compiled BBP code has been built. However, we have not confirmed that the python environment has been setup correctly.

We can test the installation by running the Unit Tests. The ./UnitTests.py fails, unable to find pyproj

1. Install pyproj

https://github.com/jswhit/pyproj

Go to pyproj, download, build and install

python setup.py build 
python setup.py install (with sudo if necessary).

To test, run python -c "import pyproj; pyproj.test()"

1. Now ./UnitTests.py gives deprecation warnings, and one of the UnitTests fails on a Mac. This reduces the available number of ground motion methods that can be run on the Mac. On Linux, there are five methods available (GP, SDSU, UCSB, EXSIM, CSM). On a Mac, there are four methods available (GP, UCSB, EXSIM, CSM).

scecadms-MBP:tests maechlin$ ./UnitTests.py
/Users/maechlin/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/cbook.py:137: MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: The matplotlib.mpl module was  deprecated in version 1.3. Use `import matplotlib as mpl` instead.
  warnings.warn(message, mplDeprecation, stacklevel=1)
test_runprog (test_bband_utils.Test_bband_utils) ... ok
test_runprog2 (test_bband_utils.Test_bband_utils) ... ok
test_runprog3 (test_bband_utils.Test_bband_utils) ... ok
test_execute_platform_bbp (test_python_code.Test_PythonCode) ... /Users/maechlin/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/cbook.py:137:   MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: The matplotlib.mpl module was deprecated in version 1.3. Use `import matplotlib as mpl` instead.
  warnings.warn(message, mplDeprecation, stacklevel=1)
ok

test_bbtoolbox (test_bbtoolbox.Test_BBToolbox) ... /bin/sh: line 1: 6027 Abort trap: 6 /Users/maechlin/Documents/dev/bbp_2015/15.3.0/bbp/src/sdsu/bin/BBtoolbox.exe < /Users/maechlin/Documents/dev/bbp_2015/bbp_data/tmpdata/9642805/bbtoolbox_test_stat/parfilename_test_stat >> /Users/maechlin/Documents/dev/bbp_2015/bbp_data/logs/9642805/9642805.bbtoolbox_test_stat.log 2>&1

The BBPToolbox does not pass all 26 UnitTests, but this is a known limitation of the BBP installation. At the end of the tests, the BBP will print the following message:

ERROR test_amp_fac (test_amp_fac.Test_Amp_Fac) ... ok Ran 26 tests in 1171.378s

FAILED (errors=1)

Once your Mac can successfully complete 25 of the 26 Unit tests, you are ready to run the acceptance tests. Now, you can refer to the material in the main BBP Users Guide, describing how to run the acceptance tests to confirm that for of the methods pass their acceptance tests. Once these methods pass their acceptance tests, they can be used for engineering and research purposes. These tests take overnight to run. At the end, however, you should receive a message like this:

TBD

At this point, the BBP is ready for use on the Mac. We do not recommend us of the SDSU method on a Mac. However, the other methods work as expected on a Mac, produce results equivalent to a Linux installation.

Mac Port Installation Approach

A software tool called Mac Ports is designed help install software on a Mac. The following steps below describe alternative way to install the BBP on a Mac using Mac Ports. Mac Ports helps you install all the needed Python and GNU packages on your Mac. However, you only need one of the methods, the one above, or one described below using Mac Ports. You do not need both.

OS X 10.9 Mavericks using MacPorts

Installing OS X on Mavericks is possible by following these steps:

1) Install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
2) Install the Xcode command line tools. To do this, in your Terminal window, please type in sudo xcode-select --install. A dialog box will pop-up asking if you want to install the command line tools. Please choose "OK" on this box.
3) Then install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org. MacPorts helps install the requirements to compile the Broadband Platform. The version of MacPorts we used was 2.3.3. Please note that to install MacPorts you must agree to the Xcode license terms. After running the MacPorts installer, please go to your Terminal and run the command sudo xcodebuild -license.
4) Install GCC 4.8 using the following command: sudo port install gcc48
​​​​5) Select the new compiler as the default compiler using the command: sudo port select gcc mp-gcc48
6) Install the PIP package manager for Python, using the command: sudo easy_install pip
7) Install PyProj, using the command: sudo pip install pyproj
8) Compile the Broadband Platform by going into the src directory and typing "make"

OS X 10.10 Yosemite using MacPorts

In order to install the Broadband Platform on Yosemite, you must follow these steps:

1) Install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
2) Install the Xcode command line tools. To do this, in your Terminal window, please type in sudo xcode-select --install. A dialog box will pop-up asking if you want to install the command line tools. Please choose "OK" on this box.
3) Then install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org. MacPorts helps install the requirements to compile the Broadband Platform. The version of MacPorts we used was 2.3.3. Please note that to install MacPorts you must agree to the Xcode license terms. After running the MacPorts installer, please go to your Terminal and run the command sudo xcodebuild -license.
4) Install GCC 4.9 using the following command: sudo port install gcc49
​​​​5) Select the new compiler as the default compiler using the command: sudo port select gcc mp-gcc49
6) Install the PIP package manager for Python, using the command: sudo easy_install pip
7) Install PyProj, using the command: sudo pip install pyproj
8) Compile the Broadband Platform by going into the src directory and typing "make"

Other Required Steps

One developer needed to run these commands to make the Mac installation work:

• export PYTHONPATH=/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/:$PYTHONPATH
• sudo pip install scipy --upgrade
• sudo pip install numpy --upgrade
• sudo pip install matplotlib --upgrade

Related Entries

• Broadband Platform
• CME Project