[mpich-devel] ./autogen.sh refuses to believe 2.69>2.67

[Wesley Bland]

I'm running 2.69 on my machine as well and am not having any problems. Does autogen have some log that I'm unaware of? You could always tell it to leave you alone with -atvercheck=no, but that's probably not the right answer.

Wesley

On Jun 12, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Jeff Hammond <jhammond at alcf.anl.gov> wrote:

> Any suggestions?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> [jhammond at login1 git]$ ./autogen.sh
> 
> ####################################
> ## Replicating confdb (and similar)
> ####################################
> 
> syncing 'src/mpl' --> 'src/pm/hydra/mpl'
> syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/mpi/romio/confdb'
> syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/mpl/confdb'
> syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/pm/hydra/confdb'
> syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/pm/hydra/mpl/confdb'
> syncing 'confdb' --> 'test/mpi/confdb'
> syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/armci/m4'
> 
> ####################################
> ## Checking user environment
> ####################################
> 
> Verifying the location of autogen.sh... done
> Checking if autotools are in the same location... yes, all in
> /home/jhammond/TOOLS
> Checking for autoconf version... bad autoconf installation
> You either do not have autoconf in your path or it is too old (version
> 2.67 or higher required). You may be able to use
> 
>     autoconf --version
> 
> Unfortunately, there is no standard format for the version output and
> it changes between autotools versions.  In addition, some versions of
> autoconf choose among many versions and provide incorrect output).
> 
> [jhammond at login1 git]$ autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
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