Path oddity in PNetCDF build/configure

[Bruno Pagani]

How do you set PATH? Did you quote it? Seems somehow your path end up being yes, likely due to expansion of its previous value.

Le 24 octobre 2021 16:30:03 GMT+04:00, Carl Ponder <cponder at nvidia.com> a écrit :
>When I build PNetCDF with MPICC=mpicc and mpicc on my$PATH, I see this during the configure phase:
>
>   ENV PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
>   ENV MPICC mpicc
>   ...
>   checking for sed handling option -i ... /usr/bin/sed -i''
>   *checking mpicc under yes... no*
>   configure: error:
>   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>         Specified MPI C compiler "mpicc" cannot be found under yes
>         PnetCDF requires a working MPI C compiler. Please specify the
>   location
>         of an MPI C compiler, either in the MPICC environment variable
>         (not CC variable) or through --with-mpi configure flag. Abort.
>   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I can work around it by making the path absolute
>
>   ENV MPICC /usr/local/bin/mpicc
>   ...
>   checking for sed handling option -i ... /usr/bin/sed -i''
>   *checking whether /usr/local/bin/mpicc exists and is executable... yes*
>
>But, based on the first message, I'm thinking there's an incorrect path-search during the configure phase.
>This is with PNetCDF 1.12.2.
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