[mpich-devel] what version of patch is required for autogen.sh?

[Jeff Hammond]

I was surprised to see that too, particularly since I thought I was
using a "real computer" -
https://www.nersc.gov/users/computational-systems/testbeds/babbage/.
I'm sure NERSC has a reason for providing me BusyBox but I don't know
what it is.

In any case, I am giving up on building the git master and switching
to the 3.1.1 release tarball.  If for some reason that isn't new
enough, I'll use the nightly tarball.

Jeff

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Larry Baker <baker at usgs.gov> wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> You know you are not really using "patch", but the dumbed-down
> patch-compatible BusyBox command?  If you have real "patch" on your system,
> maybe all you have to do is alter your PATH so it gets used instead of
> BusyBox's patch.  Otherwise, like this is for an embedded system, you might
> have to cross-compile/build from an environment with grown-up versions of
> the development tools.
>
> Larry Baker
> US Geological Survey
> 650-329-5608
> baker at usgs.gov
>
>
>
> On 24 Jun 2014, at 4:13 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote:
>
> What version of patch do I need for the following errors to disappear?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jeff
>
> Patching libtool.m4 to enable support for powerpcle... patch:
> unrecognized option `--forward'
> BusyBox v1.15.1 (2012-06-21 22:59:00 CDT) multi-call binary
>
> Usage: patch [-p NUM] [-i DIFF] [-R] [-N]
>
> -p NUM Strip NUM leading components from file names
> -i DIFF Read DIFF instead of stdin
> -R Reverse patch
> -N Ignore already applied patches
>
> failed
> Patching libtool.m4 for compatibility with nagfor shared libraries...
> patch: unrecognized option `--forward'
> BusyBox v1.15.1 (2012-06-21 22:59:00 CDT) multi-call binary
>
> Usage: patch [-p NUM] [-i DIFF] [-R] [-N]
>
> -p NUM Strip NUM leading components from file names
> -i DIFF Read DIFF instead of stdin
> -R Reverse patch
> -N Ignore already applied patches
>
> failed
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> running autoreconf in src/mpl
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `confdb'.
> libtoolize: copying file `confdb/ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `confdb'.
> libtoolize: copying file `confdb/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `confdb/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `confdb/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `confdb/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `confdb/lt~obsolete.m4'
> Patching libtool.m4 to enable support for powerpcle... patch:
> unrecognized option `--forward'
> BusyBox v1.15.1 (2012-06-21 22:59:00 CDT) multi-call binary
>
> Usage: patch [-p NUM] [-i DIFF] [-R] [-N]
>
> -p NUM Strip NUM leading components from file names
> -i DIFF Read DIFF instead of stdin
> -R Reverse patch
> -N Ignore already applied patches
>
> failed
> Patching libtool.m4 for compatibility with nagfor shared libraries...
> patch: unrecognized option `--forward'
> BusyBox v1.15.1 (2012-06-21 22:59:00 CDT) multi-call binary
>
> Usage: patch [-p NUM] [-i DIFF] [-R] [-N]
>
> -p NUM Strip NUM leading components from file names
> -i DIFF Read DIFF instead of stdin
> -R Reverse patch
> -N Ignore already applied patches
>
> failed
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> running autoreconf in src/util/logging/rlog
>
> --
> Jeff Hammond
> jeff.science at gmail.com
> http://jeffhammond.github.io/
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