Hi Danilo, I have had it in the past and adding the M4 dep will solve it, whether you get this error or not is very OS dependent. You should open a PR for it if you do (like I should have done when I fixed it :P )
Alan On 27 January 2016 at 12:12, Danilo Guerrera <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello list, on a clean system we are currently installing GCC-4.9.3-2.25 with the following command: eb GCC-4.9.3-2.25.eb -r It exits with an error while trying to install flex-2.5.39 (binutils has flex as dependency): checking for m4 that supports -P... configure: error: could not find m4 that supports -P (at easybuild/software/EasyBuild/2.6.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild_framework-2.6.0-py2.7.egg/easybuild/tools/run.py:397 in parse_cmd_output) == 2016-01-27 12:01:56,988 runpy.easyblock WARNING build failed (first 300 chars): cmd " ./configure --prefix=/opt/prova/software/easybuild/software/flex/2.5.39 " exited with exitcode 1 and output: M4 is needed and is not a dependency in the easyconfig. Did anyone hit this error? Danilo -- Dr. Alan O'Cais Application Support Juelich Supercomputing Centre Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich, Germany Phone: +49 2461 61 5213 Fax: +49 2461 61 6656 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

