[mpich-discuss] Automake version in MPICH 3.1.4

[Aurélien Larcher]

Hi,
Thank you for your answer ! For some reason out of source build of 3.1.4 is
broken on my platform, so I need to investigate.
Best,

Aurelien

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Balaji, Pavan <balaji at anl.gov> wrote:

>   Hi,
>
>  We needed some fixes in automake-1.15, so the upgrade was not arbitrary.
>
>  Having said that, that only introduces a dependency for developers.
> Users who download the tarball shouldn't need automake (or any of the
> autotools).
>
>    -- Pavan
>
>   --
> Pavan Balaji
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji
>
>   From: Aurélien Larcher
> Reply-To: "discuss at mpich.org"
> Date: Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 11:46 AM
> To: "<discuss at mpich.org>"
> Subject: [mpich-discuss] Automake version in MPICH 3.1.4
>
>     Hi,
>  I just noticed that the following commit on 2015-02-09:
>
>
> http://git.mpich.org/mpich.git/commit/8ac6607db3a087cc8986d8124cab2b0930ae31ae
>
> adds automake >= 1.15 requirement in autogen.sh
>
>  Is this fix really necessary for general platforms or is it platform
> specific ?
>
>  Does it not seem a bit too drastic to force a dependency on a core
> package released on 2015-01-05 (a month before or so) just to get a fix
> which is not mpich dependent ?
>
>  Thank you in avance !
>  Best regards
>
>  Aurélien
>
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