Hi,
It looks like make distclean will remove the following file: orte_hosts.7 and prevent a configure, new make ; make install. I tried the pre-release versions (openmpi-1.3b1,b2) and one nightly tarball (openmpi-1.3b2r19907): For openmpi-1.3b2: Step 1 : ./configure --prefix=/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2 ; make ; make install Step 2: Make distclean Step 1 again will fail: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- test -z "/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2/share/openmpi" || /bin/mkdir -p "/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2/share/openmpi" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'runtime/help-orte-runtime.txt' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2/share/openmpi/help-orte-runtime.txt' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'util/hostfile/help-hostfile.txt' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2/share/openmpi/help-hostfile.txt' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'util/dash_host/help-dash-host.txt' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2/share/openmpi/help-dash-host.txt' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'orted/help-orted.txt' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2/share/openmpi/help-orted.txt' test -z "/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2/share/man/man7" || /bin/mkdir -p "/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2/share/man/man7" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'util/hostfile/orte_hosts.7' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2/share/man/man7/orte_hosts.7' /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `util/hostfile/orte_hosts.7': No such file or directory make[3]: *** [install-man7] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mbozzore/compile_temp/ompi/openmpi-1.3b2/orte' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mbozzore/compile_temp/ompi/openmpi-1.3b2/orte' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mbozzore/compile_temp/ompi/openmpi-1.3b2/orte' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 [mbozzore@mel1 openmpi-1.3b2]$ For openmpi-1.3b2r19907: Step 1: ./configure --prefix=/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907 ; make ; make install Step 2: Make distclean Step 1 again will fail: test -z "/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/share/openmpi" || /bin/mkdir -p "/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/share/openmpi" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'runtime/help-orte-runtime.txt' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/share/openmpi/help-orte-runtime.txt' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'util/hostfile/help-hostfile.txt' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/share/openmpi/help-hostfile.txt' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'util/dash_host/help-dash-host.txt' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/share/openmpi/help-dash-host.txt' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'orted/help-orted.txt' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/share/openmpi/help-orted.txt' test -z "/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/share/man/man7" || /bin/mkdir -p "/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/share/man/man7" /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'util/hostfile/orte_hosts.7' '/tmp/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/share/man/man7/orte_hosts.7' /usr/bin/install: cannot stat `util/hostfile/orte_hosts.7': No such file or directory make[3]: *** [install-man7] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mbozzore/compile_temp/ompi/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/orte' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mbozzore/compile_temp/ompi/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/orte' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mbozzore/compile_temp/ompi/openmpi-1.3b2r19907/orte' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 Mehdi Mehdi Bozzo-Rey <mailto:mbozz...@platform.com> HPC Solution Developer Platform OCS5 <http://www.platform.com/Products/platform-open-cluster-stack5> Platform computing Phone: +1 905 948 4649