I don't think this is actually old autotools, since those are the most recent. My guess is that there's an m4 file not being included in the tarball. I'll try to take a look, but we probably need to fix a Makefile in ROMIO.
Brian On 10/31/12 2:46 PM, "Ralph Castain" <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: >We've seen this before - it's caused by using autotools that are too old. >Please look at the HACKING file to see the required version levels. > >BTW: you should not be running autogen.sh on a tarball version. You >should only run configure. > > >On Oct 31, 2012, at 1:31 PM, David Shrader <dshra...@lanl.gov> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> When using Open MPI from the 1.6.3 tarball, I have found that running >>the top-level autogen.sh breaks the romio component. Here are the steps >>to reproduce: >> >> 1) download openmpi-1.6.3.tar.bz2 from >>http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.6/ >> 2) untar openmpi-1.6.3.tar.bz2 >> 3) cd openmpi-1.6.3 >> 4) ./autogen.sh >> 5) ./configure >> >> In configure's output, the following error can be seen: >> >> ...output snipped... >> >> *** Configuring ROMIO distribution >> configure: OMPI configuring in ompi/mca/io/romio/romio >> configure: running /bin/sh './configure' CFLAGS="-DNDEBUG -g -O2 >>-finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread" CPPFLAGS=" >>-I/users/dshrader/tmp/openmpi-1.6.3/opal/mca/hwloc/hwloc132/hwloc/include >> -I/usr/include/infiniband -I/usr/include/infiniband" FFLAGS="" >>LDFLAGS=" " --enable-shared --disable-static --with-mpi=open_mpi >>--disable-aio --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=. --disable-option-checking >> Configuring with args CFLAGS=-DNDEBUG -g -O2 -finline-functions >>-fno-strict-aliasing -pthread CPPFLAGS= >>-I/users/dshrader/tmp/openmpi-1.6.3/opal/mca/hwloc/hwloc132/hwloc/include >> -I/usr/include/infiniband -I/usr/include/infiniband FFLAGS= LDFLAGS= >>--enable-shared --disable-static --with-mpi=open_mpi --disable-aio >>--cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=. --disable-option-checking >> checking for Open MPI support files... in Open MPI source tree -- good >> ./configure: line 2805: PAC_PROG_MAKE: command not found >> >> ...output snipped... >> >> ./configure: line 7908: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' >> ./configure: line 7908: ` PAC_FUNC_NEEDS_DECL(#include >><string.h>,strdup)' >> configure: /bin/sh './configure' *failed* for ompi/mca/io/romio/romio >> configure: WARNING: ROMIO distribution did not configure successfully >> checking if MCA component io:romio can compile... no >> >> ...remaining output snipped... >> >> None of the MPI/IO components work, including ufs, if I continue with a >>'make' and 'make install'. >> >> Judging from the output from configure and a quick perusal of romio's >>configure script, it looks like some macros are not being correctly >>expanded in the creation of romio's configure script. >> >> For reference, here are the versions of my autotools: >> m4: 1.4.16 >> autoconf: 2.69 >> automake: 1.11.5 >> libtool: 2.4.2 >> >> I have not yet submitted this as a Trac item on svn.open-mpi.org. I >>wasn't sure what to put in the "Version" field as 1.6.3 wasn't listed >>there and I don't know if this is an issue in the 1.6 branch. >> >> Thank you very much for your time, >> David >> >> -- >> David Shrader >> SICORP, Inc >> 1350 Central Ave >> Suite 104 >> Los Alamos, NM 87544 >> david.shra...@sicorp.com >> >> LANL contact information: >> >> LANL #: 505-664-0996 >> LANL email: dshra...@lanl.gov >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> de...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > > >_______________________________________________ >devel mailing list >de...@open-mpi.org >http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > > -- Brian W. Barrett Dept. 1423: Scalable System Software Sandia National Laboratories
