I have not personally tried, but I am pretty sure that you can install the 
autotools under VxWorks - have you tried to download the latest autotool 
tarballs and build them?

On Apr 15, 2010, at 9:30 PM, 张晶 wrote:

> Hello everyone ,
>  
> For the purpose to migrate the OpenMPI to VxWorks ,I have set up a VxWorks 
> development environment with WorkBench 3.0. It is really a good news that the 
> WorkBench supports gnu building tools, bash and some frequently used command 
> like sed ,awd and so on but not the Autotools (Autoconf/Automake) .Once I 
> wonder the configure script file generated under the linux may work well 
> under the workbench shell environment . But it is a frustrate to find when I 
> launch the configure ,it just hang without any prompt .I look into the 
> problem and found maybe the version of the bash in the VxWorks is too low to 
> parse the configure file .
> Then I come across the cmake which is used to as building tools under windows 
> for the openmpi. Because of the feature of “cross-platform” ,I think it is 
> possible to use cmake to migrate .Also I found boostcmake project which 
> supports the vxworks gnu compile tools using cmake .
> But considering my poor knowledge about the building system 
> (Autotools,cmake,etc),I need some guide and advice to review what I plan to 
> do is a possible .
>  
> Thank you in advance !
> Jing Zhang  
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