[mpich-discuss] autoconf errors from svn code

[Ashley Pittman]

Thank you for the pointer.  Does this apply only to the machine where I
run ./maint/updatefiles or do I have to put 2.63 on the build machine as
well?

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:57 -0500, Anthony Chan wrote:
> Hi Ashley,
> 
> For now, you need to use autoconf 2.63 to build mpich2.
> Autoconf has a significant change from 2.63 to 2.64 that
> breaks mpich2's f90 macros.
> 
> A.Chan
> 
> ----- "Ashley Pittman" <ashley at pittman.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > I'm trying to build MPICH2 from subversion but ./maint/updatefiles is
> > aborting with the following error.  Is this a known problem and what
> > can
> > I do to get around it?
> > 
> > I'm using r5309 on an up-to-date debian machine with autoconf 2.64.
> > 
> > Found ./src/binding/f90/configure.in; executing make configure target
> > (cd . && autoconf -I ../../../confdb )
> > configure.in:72: error: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: unknown language: Fortran
> > 90
> > ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:214: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
> > ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2577: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded
> > from...
> > ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:620: AS_IF is expanded from...
> > ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2018: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
> > ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2039: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded
> > from...
> > ../../../confdb/fortran90.m4:257: AC_PROG_F90 is expanded from...
> > ../../../confdb/fortran90.m4:953: PAC_PROG_F90 is expanded from...
> > configure.in:72: the top level
> > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> > make: *** [configure] Error 1
> > See /mnt/home/debian/ashley/code/mpich2/trunk/src/binding/f90/mf.tmp
> > for
> > Makefile that failed
> > Error! Could not build configure in ./src/binding/f90 with make
> > configure
> > PANIC: Could not make configure from configure.in
> > In directory ./src/binding/f90
> > ashley at alpha:~/code/mpich2/trunk$ 
> > 
> > Ashley,
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK.
> > 
> > Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing
> > http://padb.pittman.org.uk
-- 

Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK.

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