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

[Antonio J. Peña]

I'm using 2.69 as well without problems.


On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:32:00 PM Wesley Bland wrote:
> 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
> > Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
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> > permitted by law.
> > 
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