[mpich-discuss] ./maint/updatefiles and configure problems

[Dave Goodell]

FWIW, this check has been added: https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/changeset/6284

-Dave

On Feb 15, 2010, at 8:24 AM, Dave Goodell wrote:

> Yeah, we can add something like this.  There is a version  
> requirement specified in the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE line, but the actual  
> check only occurs when automake is run.  So when your maint/ 
> updatefiles step bails after only running autoconf, you never get  
> the more understandable message about version mismatch.
>
> -Dave
>
> On Feb 15, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeff Hammond wrote:
>
>> Can ./maint/updatefiles be instrumented to check for that
>> compatibility as well (i.e. in addition to autoconf 2.63)?  That  
>> would
>> help us noobs running a GNU toolchain that's more than three months
>> old :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Pavan Balaji <balaji at mcs.anl.gov>  
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks like you don't have automake-1.11.
>>>
>>> -- Pavan
>>>
>>> On 02/14/2010 10:24 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote:
>>>> I did the usual "svn update" and ./maint/updatefiles  on the mpich2
>>>> trunk but there were problems in the second stage as well as the
>>>> subsequent configure step.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not dependent on this code, so there is no urgency in fixing  
>>>> what
>>>> I perceive to be a problem.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>>> ===============================================================
>>>> step 1
>>>> ===============================================================
>>>> jeff at megatron:/software/mpich/mpich2-trunk> svn update
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> ===============================================================
>>>> step 2
>>>> ===============================================================
>>>> jeff at megatron:/software/mpich/mpich2-trunk> ./maint/updatefiles
>>>> You have autoconf version 2.63 or greater.
>>>> Checking that libtool version is acceptable...
>>>> ...
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> running autoreconf in src/pm/hydra
>>>> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>>>> autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
>>>> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I mpl/confdb
>>>> configure.in:181: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:182: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:183: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:195: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:231: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:237: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:238: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:239: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> autoreconf: configure.in: tracing
>>>> autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
>>>> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `mpl/ 
>>>> confdb'.
>>>> libtoolize: copying file `mpl/confdb/ltmain.sh'
>>>> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `mpl/confdb'.
>>>> libtoolize: copying file `mpl/confdb/libtool.m4'
>>>> libtoolize: copying file `mpl/confdb/ltoptions.m4'
>>>> libtoolize: copying file `mpl/confdb/ltsugar.m4'
>>>> libtoolize: copying file `mpl/confdb/ltversion.m4'
>>>> libtoolize: copying file `mpl/confdb/lt~obsolete.m4'
>>>> configure.in:181: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:182: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:183: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:195: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:231: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:237: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:238: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> configure.in:239: warning: macro `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE' not found in  
>>>> library
>>>> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
>>>> configure.in:183: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE
>>>>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use  
>>>> m4_pattern_allow.
>>>>      See the Autoconf documentation.
>>>> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
>>>>
>>>> ===============================================================
>>>> step 3
>>>> ===============================================================
>>>> jeff at megatron:/software/mpich/mpich2-trunk> ./configure CC=gcc  
>>>> CXX=g++
>>>> F77=gfortran FC=gfortran
>>>> --prefix=/software/mpich/gnu-build-mpich2-trunk
>>>> --with-thread-package=pthreads --enable-threads=default --enable- 
>>>> f77
>>>> --enable-f90 --enable-cxx --enable-romio --enable-smpcoll -- 
>>>> enable-mpe
>>>> --with-pm=hydra
>>>> ...
>>>> checking boot-strap server... ssh,rsh,fork,slurm,persist
>>>> /software/mpich/mpich2-trunk/src/pm/hydra/configure: line 12966:
>>>> syntax error near unexpected token `hydra_bss_init_decl'
>>>> /software/mpich/mpich2-trunk/src/pm/hydra/configure: line 12966:
>>>> `AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE(hydra_bss_init_decl)'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pavan Balaji
>>> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jeff Hammond
>> Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
>> jhammond at mcs.anl.gov / (630) 252-5381
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhammond
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