Re: [Libmesh-devel] libmesh.automake issues

2012-04-19 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
On 4/19/12 6:37 PM, "John Peterson" wrote: > After updating to 5570 on the automake branch, I now get errors about > missing sfcurves.h header... > > > I am building in a subdirectory of the SVN checkout. The steps I followed > were: > > > ./bootstrap > mkdir opt_build > cd opt_build > ../co

Re: [Libmesh-devel] libmesh.automake issues

2012-04-19 Thread John Peterson
After updating to 5570 on the automake branch, I now get errors about missing sfcurves.h header... I am building in a subdirectory of the SVN checkout. The steps I followed were: ./bootstrap mkdir opt_build cd opt_build ../configure --with-method=opt --prefix=/path/to/libmesh/opt_install make

Re: [Libmesh-devel] libmesh.automake issues

2012-04-19 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
On 4/19/12 3:26 PM, "Roy Stogner" wrote: > It's almost certainly a bug in Ubuntu autotools. But if it's an > Ubuntu issue that has persisted through two freaking years then it'd > be nice of us to have a workaround. There's got to be some workaround > - we build lots of automake-based apps here

Re: [Libmesh-devel] libmesh.automake issues

2012-04-19 Thread Roy Stogner
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) wrote: > (1) The Make.common. I just fixed in r5565 and am testing it. Thanks! > (2) The bash/dash nonsese I have working at home on ubuntu 11.10 by setting > the CONFIG_SHELL environment variable to /bin/bash, forcing it to use the > right shell.

Re: [Libmesh-devel] libmesh.automake issues

2012-04-19 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
>>> I can't seem to figure a workaround; one major drawback of automake is >>> how damn opaque it is. >> >> Thanks - actually I just hit this a minute ago on cygwin 1.7. I'll work up >> a fix... > > Thanks! Turns out this hits me on Ubuntu 11.10 too. I should have > tried out the branch on mor

Re: [Libmesh-devel] libmesh.automake issues

2012-04-19 Thread Roy Stogner
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) wrote: >> I can't seem to figure a workaround; one major drawback of automake is >> how damn opaque it is. > > Thanks - actually I just hit this a minute ago on cygwin 1.7. I'll work up > a fix... Thanks! Turns out this hits me on Ubuntu 11.10 to

Re: [Libmesh-devel] libmesh.automake issues

2012-04-19 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
> I can't seem to figure a workaround; one major drawback of automake is > how damn opaque it is. Thanks - actually I just hit this a minute ago on cygwin 1.7. I'll work up a fix... -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen I

[Libmesh-devel] libmesh.automake issues

2012-04-19 Thread Roy Stogner
If we configure with no METHOD defined, instead of defaulting to opt we just get a "Make.common." with no suffix. If we then build with no METHOD defined, it dies complaining that it can't find Make.common.opt. We seem to be getting hit by this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libt