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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In attempting to build MPICH 3.1.4 or 3.2 in the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux, which provides a full Ubuntu bash shell, I receive the following error message after configuring:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">mpich-3.2/confdb/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.15: command not found<br class="">WARNING: 'aclocal-1.15' is missing on your system.<br class=""> You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or<br class=""> '<a href="http://configure.ac" class="">configure.ac</a>' or m4 files included by '<a href="http://configure.ac" class="">configure.ac</a>'.<br class=""> The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:<br class=""> <<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake" class="">http://www.gnu.org/software/automake</a>><br class=""> It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:<br class=""> <<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf" class="">http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf</a>><br class=""> <<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/" class="">http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/</a>><br class=""> <<a href="http://www.perl.org/" class="">http://www.perl.org/</a>><br class="">make: *** [/home/rouson/Desktop-shortcut/opencoarrays/prerequisites/downloads/mpich-3.2/aclocal.m4] Error 127</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Prior to configuring, I installed aclocal installed via “sudo apt-get install automake,” which provided aclocal-1.14. I attempted unsuccessfully to build aclocal-1.15, but the discussion at the following URL suggests that the problem might relate to time stamps on file MPICH tar ball:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18769770/user-of-autotools-generated-tarball-gets-error-message-aclocal-1-13-command-no" class="">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18769770/user-of-autotools-generated-tarball-gets-error-message-aclocal-1-13-command-no</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tried several of the steps suggested at the above link, but each leads to the following error message during the make step:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">$ make<br class="">( cd ./src/binding/fortran/mpif_h && ./buildiface )<br class="">Replacing <a href="http://mpif.h.in" class="">mpif.h.in</a><br class="">( cd ./src/binding/fortran/use_mpi && ./buildiface )<br class="">Replacing <a href="http://mpi_base.f90.in" class="">mpi_base.f90.in</a><br class="">Replacing <a href="http://mpi_constants.f90.in" class="">mpi_constants.f90.in</a><br class="">Replacing mpi_t1.f90<br class="">( cd . && rm -f .err unusederr.txt ; rm -rf .tmp )<br class="">( cd . && \<br class=""> ./maint/extracterrmsgs -careful=unusederr.txt \<br class=""> -skip=src/util/multichannel/mpi.c \<br class=""> `cat maint/errmsgdirs` > .tmp 2>.err )<br class="">( cd . && if test -s .err ; then rm -f .tmp ; cat .err ; exit 1 ; fi )<br class="">Warning: attempt to redefine **fail. Duplicate ignored.<br class="">make: *** [src/mpi/errhan/defmsg.h] Error 1</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Can anyone advise me about how to resolve this problem? Information on the Windows 10 Ubuntu distribution is here: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/249966/how-to-install-and-use-the-linux-bash-shell-on-windows-10/" class="">http://www.howtogeek.com/249966/how-to-install-and-use-the-linux-bash-shell-on-windows-10/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My goa is to support users of OpenCoarrays (<a href="https://github.com/sourceryinstitute/opencoarrays" class="">https://github.com/sourceryinstitute/opencoarrays</a>), which uses MPICH to build and execute coarray Fortran codes with the GNU Fortran compiler (gfortran).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class=""><div class="">
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