[mpich-discuss] make install issue

[Dave Goodell]

I don't think you copied enough output for us to tell what happened.

Please run "make install 2>&1 | tee mi.txt" and send us the generated  
mi.txt file.

-Dave

On Feb 19, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Tai Huynh wrote:

> That resolved the error for the install-sh but I'm getting another  
> one:
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-postamble'
> Current working directory /build/FNL7/tai/mpich2-1.2.1/src/env
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
> Current working directory /build/FNL7/tai/mpich2-1.2.1/src/env
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
>
>
> -Tai
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:mpich-discuss-bounces at mcs.anl.gov 
> ] On Behalf Of Dave Goodell
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 11:25 AM
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] make install issue
>
> It doesn't look like the problem is coming from MKDIR_P (although
> reading that macro I think I just spotted a separate bug there too).
> The problem is that our makefile is using "INSTALL_DATA=confdb/ 
> install-
> sh" as determined by AC_PROG_INSTALL [1] in a subdirectory.  Because
> this is a relative path, when the make process changes directories it
> can no longer find the program.  Even worse than this being a relative
> path, it's a relative path with an implicit current directory (there
> is no explicit "." at the start).
>
> I suspect this happens because your machine doesn't have a proper
> "install" program written in C, so it falls back to using the included
> "install-sh".  We do all of our testing on platforms with working
> "install" programs, so we never see this case.
>
> The short term workaround for you is to re-configure and pass
> "INSTALL=MPICH2_SOURCE_DIR/confdb/install-sh", replacing
> "MPICH2_SOURCE_DIR" with a real path to the MPICH2 source
> distribution.  I'll file a new ticket to remind us to fix this up
> somehow.
>
> -Dave
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#index-AC_005fPROG_005fINSTALL-262
>
> On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Tai Huynh wrote:
>
>> When I do a make install and it fails because confdb/install-sh is
>> not found.
>>
>> My mpich2-1.2.1 already have the fix of r5801 (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P is
>> broken; it's using a version check on
>> mkdir to figure out whether to use "mkdir -p", instead of something
>> else. Also added a comment explaining this issue.).
>> https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/ticket/939
>>
>> I am running on a:
>> SunOS stratego 5.10 Generic_141444-09 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
>> f95: Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc Patch 127000-01 2007/07/18
>>
>> Thank you for you help,
>>
>> Tai Huynh
>> <install.txt>
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