Just an FYI: on the Mac ML, I see this:
Searching for m4
Found m4 version 4; checking version...
Found version component 4 -- need 1
$ m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16
Looks like the parser isn't quite picking it up correctly, but it is releasing
it because it thinks the 4 is above the required 1
On Nov 15, 2012, at 8:42 AM, "Hjelm, Nathan T" <hje...@lanl.gov> wrote:
> Committed as r27615. Let me know if there are any more issues.
>
> -Nathan
>
> ________________________________________
> From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] on behalf of
> Ralph Castain [r...@open-mpi.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:53 AM
> To: Open MPI Developers
> Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [OMPI svn] svn:open-mpi r27601 - trunk
>
> Looks fine to me. I would only add one further refinement - I think we should
> check m4, but add a check in autogen.pl so that if we get nothing useful back
> from -v (or whatever), then output a warning that we couldn't validate the
> version and assume it is okay.
>
> I believe the tool will return a non-zero status if the option isn't
> supported, so we should be able to do this - yes?
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2012, at 7:48 AM, "Hjelm, Nathan T" <hje...@lanl.gov> wrote:
>
>> Since the version of m4 that comes with Solaris likely works with all our
>> .m4 files and there is no way to check the version (no --version, -v, -V, or
>> anything from what I can tell) I guess we have no choice but to not check
>> the m4 version.
>>
>> flex on the other hand we can check. How about this for the new regex (for
>> reference the old one is $version =~ m/\s([\d\w\.]+)$/m; -- matching a
>> version at the end of the line):
>>
>> $version =~ m/\s([\d\.]+\w?)/m;
>>
>> It works with Apple's flex and still works with glibtoolize, autoconf, and
>> automake.
>>
>> Searching for autoconf
>> Found autoconf version 2.69; checking version...
>> Found version component 2 -- need 2
>> Found version component 69 -- need 65
>> ==> ACCEPTED
>> Searching for libtoolize
>> libtoolize not found
>> Searching for glibtoolize
>> Found glibtoolize version 2.4.2; checking version...
>> Found version component 2 -- need 2
>> Found version component 4 -- need 2
>> ==> ACCEPTED
>> Searching for automake
>> Found automake version 1.12.2; checking version...
>> Found version component 1 -- need 1
>> Found version component 12 -- need 11
>> ==> ACCEPTED
>> Searching for flex
>> Found flex version 2.5.35; checking version...
>> Found version component 2 -- need 2
>> Found version component 5 -- need 5
>> Found version component 35 -- need 35
>> ==> ACCEPTED
>> Searching for m4
>> Found m4 version 1.4.6; checking version...
>> Found version component 1 -- need 1
>> Found version component 4 -- need 4
>> Found version component 6 -- need 16
>> ==> Too low! Skipping this version
>> Searching for gm4
>> Found gm4 version 1.4.16; checking version...
>> Found version component 1 -- need 1
>> Found version component 4 -- need 4
>> Found version component 16 -- need 16
>> ==> ACCEPTED
>>
>>
>> -Nathan
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org [devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] on behalf of
>> Paul Hargrove [phhargr...@lbl.gov]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:37 PM
>> To: Larry Baker
>> Cc: Open MPI Developers
>> Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [OMPI svn] svn:open-mpi r27601 - trunk
>>
>> Larry,
>>
>> I just wanted to speak up quickly to be sure nobody used your example to
>> "fix" the Mac OS problem and thereby break Solaris instead. No personal
>> attack/affront was intended.
>>
>> -Paulhttps://mymail.lanl.gov/owa/?ae=PreFormAction&t=IPM.Note&a=ReplyAll&id=RgAAAAD3GfjXt9HDTI902%2b63W1IcBwCuRfL1X%2babT5m7NFXoIdcVAAAAxVZxAACuRfL1X%2babT5m7NFXoIdcVAAAa4RQFAAAJ#
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Larry Baker
>> <ba...@usgs.gov<mailto:ba...@usgs.gov>> wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> 1) I wasn't trying to solve the --version issue, only the parsing of the
>> response.
>> 2) I assumed from the initial e-mail that the broken parser was in a Perl
>> script. I'm not a Perl person, so I wrote the example regular expression
>> parser in sed.
>>
>> These commands were done on my Mac OS X 10.6 system. I have no idea where
>> the apps came from. I know the sed, at least, does not recognize regular
>> expressions documented for GNU sed (such as \< \> for begin/end word).
>> Maybe it is a BSD sed?
>>
>> I was just trying to illustrate how to fix the broken parsing of Ralph's
>> "flex --version". Assuming the RE parser I wrote is satisfactory, it would
>> have to be adapted to fit in the framework, i.e., it has to be portable.
>>
>> Larry Baker
>> US Geological Survey
>> 650-329-5608<tel:650-329-5608>
>> ba...@usgs.gov<mailto:ba...@usgs.gov>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14 Nov 2012, at 5:41 PM, Paul Hargrove wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Larry Baker
>> <ba...@usgs.gov<mailto:ba...@usgs.gov>> wrote:
>> m4 --version | sed -n -E -e
>> '1s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+)[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?.*$/\1/p'
>>
>>
>> There are STILL problems with this approach as it is TWICE specific to GNU
>> software:
>>
>> 1) M4 on OpenBSD (maybe others) doesn't support a "--version" flag:
>> $ m4 --version | sed -n -E -e
>> '1s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+)[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?.*$/\1/p'
>> m4: unknown option -- -
>> usage: m4 [-gPs] [-Dname[=value]] [-d flags] [-I dirname] [-o filename]
>> [-t macro] [-Uname] [file ...]
>>
>> 2) sed on Solaris (maybe others) doesn't support a "-E" flag:
>> $ m4 --version | sed -n -E -e
>> '1s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+)[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?.*$/\1/p'
>> /bin/sed: illegal option -- E
>>
>> -Paul
>>
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