* Tim Mattox wrote on Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 03:11:20PM CEST:
> As this thread is making clear, not everyone saw and/or heeded the
> note that we were upgrading the GNU autotools used for building Open MPI's
> nightly tarballs. See http://www.open-mpi.org/svn/building.php the the
> version
> matrix. For your reference, the trunk & 1.3 nightlies are being built
> with these versions, and I recommend everyone upgrade to these:
This has not much to do with autotools versions, but everything
with having a build tree separate from the source tree or not.
The proper fix is to change several references of $(top_srcdir) to
$(top_builddir), to insert into each rule in
ompi_trunk/Makefile.man-page-rules a command like
@$(mkdir_p) `dirname $@`
to have the corresponding directory created in advance. Alternatively,
you can make files depend on a directory stamp file whose rule creates
the corresponding directory (depending on the directory itself is not
portable).
Also, I see in ompi/tools/*/Makefile.am several instances of
cd SOME_DIR ; make FOO
in makefile rules. Please fix them to be
cd SOME_DIR && $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) FOO
so that, if SOME_DIR does not exists, no rogue action is performed,
also that parallel make works as advertised, and that make flags can be
overridden conveniently.
Cheers,
Ralf (who can fix this but then you will have to wait)
