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

[Jeff Hammond]

Indeed, it is indicative of an installation on a cross-mounted
filesystem where the user is foolishly trying to use autotools built
in a PPC64 environment within an x86_64 one.

Sorry for being stupid.

Jeff

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM, David Goodell (dgoodell)
<dgoodell at cisco.com> wrote:
> This situation is usually a symptom of some underlying autoconf/autotools configuration problem (like a busted m4 install or 32-/64-bit compat issue).  For some reason the sanity check before looking for a specific version is either very weak or missing (I can't remember off the top of my head).
>
> Also, make sure that 2.69 is a known version to the script (though I think it is).
>
> -Dave
>
> 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
>> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>>
>> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Hammond
>> Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
>> University of Chicago Computation Institute
>> jhammond at alcf.anl.gov / (630) 252-5381
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhammond
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>



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Jeff Hammond
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
University of Chicago Computation Institute
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