And speaking of configure tests, it looks like m4/config_environment.m4 isn't working quite right on my system.
Immediately following the test for svnversion, I see checking for svnversion... /usr/bin/svnversion cat: ../dist_version: No such file or directory Here's the relevant code path. It turns out that svnversion returns "exported" for a git-on-top-of-svn checkout, so we enter the first branch of the if-statement: if test "x${svnquery}" = "x" || test `${svnquery} -n $srcdir` = "exported"; then SVN_REVISION="cat $srcdir/dist_version" SVN_CHECKOUT=false BUILD_DEVSTATUS="External Release" else ... fi Apparently we aren't really set up for this branch of the if-statement, because we don't have a dist_version file (unless 'svn export' automatically creates that?). So it could probably be fixed with an if [ -f $file ]; then ... fi type check. Note also that an empty string eventually gets substituted for LIBMESH_BUILD_VERSION in libmesh_config.h #define LIBMESH_BUILD_VERSION "" Is that OK behavior going forward? What if anything is LIBMESH_BUILD_VERSION supposed to be used for? -- John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list Libmesh-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel