[mpich-devel] Mac autogen.sh fails

[Kenneth Raffenetti]

Hmm, I suppose we didn't run into this on our test systems since we 
always install those tools from scratch, and I'm still not a Mac guy so 
I didn't notice :). I'll put together a PR to revert it.

Ken

On 12/08/2017 09:27 AM, Bland, Wesley wrote:
> I guess posting the link to our GitHub Enterprise instance doesn't help. 
> Here's the correct link:
> 
> https://github.com/pmodels/mpich/commit/a512f954007fefa4b3b218848854481927422fc3
> 
>> On Dec 8, 2017, at 9:24 AM, Bland, Wesley <wesley.bland at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> This would appear to be the culprit. Maybe Pavan/Ken can talk about 
>> why it was removed?
>>
>> https://github.intel.com/csr/mpich-ofi/commit/a512f954007fefa4b3b218848854481927422fc3
>>
>>> On Dec 7, 2017, at 3:51 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> autogen.sh is failing for me on Mac because Apple's libtool is not in 
>>> the same place as Homebrew's autoconf/automake.  I perused autogen.sh 
>>> but didn't see an option to fix this.
>>>
>>> I need to use Homebrew autotools for other projects and don't want to 
>>> uninstall Xcode for obvious reasons.  Is there a workaround besides 
>>> hacking autogen.sh and hating myself?  I'd like to cause it to 
>>> glibtool instead.
>>>
>>> If nothing else, autogen.sh incorrectly prints the location of 
>>> libtool.  It is in /usr/bin not /.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> jrhammon-mac01:git jrhammon$ which libtool
>>> /usr/bin/libtool
>>> jrhammon-mac01:git jrhammon$ which autoconf
>>> /usr/local/bin/autoconf
>>> jrhammon-mac01:git jrhammon$ which automake
>>> /usr/local/bin/automake
>>> jrhammon-mac01:git jrhammon$ which glibtool
>>> /usr/local/bin/glibtool
>>>
>>>
>>> jrhammon-mac01:git jrhammon$ ./autogen.sh
>>>
>>> ####################################
>>> ## Checking user environment
>>> ####################################
>>>
>>> Verifying the location of autogen.sh... done
>>> usage: dirname path
>>> Checking if autotools are in the same location... no
>>> autoconf is in /usr/local
>>> automake is in /usr/local
>>> libtool  is in /
>>> ===> WARNING: Autotools are in different locations. In rare occasion,
>>> ===> WARNING: resulting configure or makefile may fail in some 
>>> unexpected ways.
>>> Checking if autoreconf accepts -I //share/aclocal... no
>>> Checking if autoreconf works after an additional libtoolize step... no
>>> ===> ERROR:   Since none of the autoreconf workaround works
>>> ===> ERROR:   and autotools are not in the same directory, aborting...
>>> ===> ERROR:   Updating autotools or putting all autotools in the same 
>>> location
>>> ===> ERROR:   may resolve the issue.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jeff Hammond
>>> jeff.science at gmail.com <mailto:jeff.science at gmail.com>
>>> http://jeffhammond.github.io/
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