You rock!  I was literally just trying to figure out something exactly like 
this.  Your version is much more elegant than my current attempt.  :-)

Many thanks!


On Sep 9, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Yes, sorry for not making this clear earlier: AS_VAR_COPY is fairly new,
> and was introduced because AS_VAR_GET has problems.  You should be able
> to workaround it by placing something like
> 
>  m4_ifndef([AS_VAR_COPY],
>    [m4_define([AS_VAR_COPY],
>       [AS_LITERAL_IF([$1[]$2], [$1=$$2], [eval $1=\$$2])])])
> 
> early into the m4 stream (untested).
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf
> 
> * Jeff Squyres wrote on Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:34:07AM CEST:
>> I'm checking into this.
>> 
>> I'm guessing that the problem is that the autoconf we use to build the 1.4 
>> tarballs doesn't have AS_VAR_COPY.  Arrgghhh...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 9, 2010, at 3:02 AM, MPI Team wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> ERROR: Command returned a non-zero exist status (v1.4):
>>>      ./autogen.sh
>>> 
>>> Start time: Wed Sep  8 21:00:07 EDT 2010
>>> End time:   Wed Sep  8 21:02:49 EDT 2010
>>> 
>>> =======================================================================
>>> [... previous lines snipped ...]
>>> 
>>> *** Found configure.(in|ac)
>>> ***   
>>> /home/mpiteam/openmpi/nightly-tarball-build-root/v1.4/create-r23733/ompi/ompi/contrib/vt/vt/extlib/otf
>>> 
>>> *** Running GNU tools
>>> [Running] libtoolize --automake --copy
>>> [Running] aclocal
>>> [Running] autoheader
>>> [Running] autoconf
>>> [Running] automake --foreign -a --copy --include-deps
>>> ++ Patching configure for Libtool PGI 10 fortran compiler name
>>> ++ Patching configure for Libtool PGI version number regexps
>>> 
>>> <== Back in 
>>> /home/mpiteam/openmpi/nightly-tarball-build-root/v1.4/create-r23733/ompi/ompi/contrib/vt
>>> <== autogen.sh continuing...
>>> 
>>> *** Found configure.(in|ac)
>>> ***   
>>> /home/mpiteam/openmpi/nightly-tarball-build-root/v1.4/create-r23733/ompi
>>> 
>>> *** Running GNU tools
>>> [Running] autom4te --language=m4sh ompi_get_version.m4sh -o 
>>> ompi_get_version.sh
>>> [Running] libtoolize --automake --copy --ltdl
>>> ** Adjusting libltdl for OMPI :-(
>>>  ++ patching for argz bugfix in libtool 1.5
>>>     -- your libtool doesn't need this! yay!
>>>  ++ patching 64-bit OS X bug in ltmain.sh
>>>     -- your libtool doesn't need this! yay!
>>>  ++ RTLD_GLOBAL in libltdl
>>>     -- your libltdl doesn't need this! yay!
>>> grep: configure: No such file or directory
>>>  ++ patching for ifort (LT 2.2.0-4)
>>>    -- your libltdl doesn't need this! yay!
>>> [Running] aclocal -I config
>>> [Running] autoheader
>>> ** Adjusting libtool for OMPI :-(
>>>  ++ patching for pathscale multi-line output (LT 2.x)
>>>  ++ patching for ifort (LT 2.2.0-4)
>>>    -- your libltdl doesn't need this! yay!
>>>  ++ patching to remove solaris Cstd
>>>  ++ patching for Sun Studio Fortran compilers
>>> [Running] autoconf
>>> configure:36430: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_VAR_COPY
>>>     If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>>>     See the Autoconf documentation.
>>> 
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> It seems that the execution of "autoconf" has failed.  See above for
>>> the specific error message that caused it to abort.
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> =======================================================================
>>> 
>>> Your friendly daemon,
>>> Cyrador
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