[mpich-discuss] Changes to MPICH2

[Pavan Balaji]

Run maint/updatefiles; it'll internally run autoconf together with a 
bunch of other required things.

  -- Pavan

Eduardo Kienetz wrote:
> For my graduation project I'll have to add a new flag to MPICH2's
> configure script (--enable-peruse, for the record).
> According to the Autobook
> (http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_24.html#SEC24),
> I should change configure.in , which will be read when I run autoconf,
> generating the configure script. So, to test, I renamed the configure
> script that comes with MPICH2 to old.configure and then ran autoconf,
> which created a new configure script from the configure.in (unchanged)
> that also comes with MPICH2. I noticed the new one has a different
> size (smaller) than the one that came (old.configure) with MPICH2 and
> is unusable. So, should I just change configure directly or are there
> any special arguments to autoconf that I'm missing (or something
> else)?
> 
> I'm using: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
> 
> The errors I get when trying to run the newly built configure script are:
> Configuring MPICH2 version 1.0.8
> Running on system: Linux dv5 2.6.28ebk #2 SMP Sun Jan 11 19:28:13 BRST
> 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     P8400  @ 2.26GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux
> ./configure: line 2307: PAC_ARG_CACHING: command not found
> ./configure: line 2530: syntax error near unexpected token `src/include/mpi.h'
> ./configure: line 2530: `PAC_VPATH_CHECK(src/include/mpi.h
> src/env/mpicc src/env/mpicc.conf,lib)'
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated,
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 

-- 
Pavan Balaji
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji