Ha! Jeff points out that our web site says we are at AM 1.12.2 - yet our 
HACKING file says 1.11.1  Sadness

I'll leave the romio update alone and update the HACKING file to avoid future 
confusion


On Nov 14, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:

> Just in case others are encountering this: the recent ROMIO update contains a 
> line in its configure.ac that breaks the trunk for automake versions less 
> than 1.12:
> 
> "I've looked a bit around online for this, and the consensus generally seems 
> to be that AM_PROG_AR should be added in libtool, not in every configure.ac 
> script out there. It's especially problematic as AM_PROG_AR doesn't exist in 
> automake before 1.12, which means it breaks, among others, with the automake 
> we use to build our distribution tarballs :-)
> 
> See e.g. http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=11401 for a discussion."
> 
> I'm going to comment that line out in ompi/mca/io/romio/romio/configure.ac so 
> the trunk can build until someone figures out (a) if it is really needed, and 
> (b) how to correctly add it
> 
> Ralph
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