[mpich-discuss] Errors building MPICH on Windows 10 Ubuntu subsystem

[Balaji, Pavan]

Can you try building with --disable-maintainer-mode?

mpich folks: we should try to disable maintainer mode by default for released tarballs.

  -- Pavan

> On Oct 11, 2016, at 1:33 AM, Damian Rouson <damian at sourceryinstitute.org> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> In attempting to build MPICH 3.1.4 or 3.2 in the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux, which provides a full Ubuntu bash shell, I receive the following error message after configuring:
> 
> mpich-3.2/confdb/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.15: command not found
> WARNING: 'aclocal-1.15' is missing on your system.
>          You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
>          'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
>          The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
>          It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
>          <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
>          <http://www.perl.org/>
> make: *** [/home/rouson/Desktop-shortcut/opencoarrays/prerequisites/downloads/mpich-3.2/aclocal.m4] Error 127
> 
> Prior to configuring, I installed aclocal installed via “sudo apt-get install automake,” which provided aclocal-1.14. I attempted unsuccessfully to build aclocal-1.15, but the discussion at the following URL suggests that the problem might relate to time stamps on file MPICH tar ball:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18769770/user-of-autotools-generated-tarball-gets-error-message-aclocal-1-13-command-no
> 
> I tried several of the steps suggested at the above link, but each leads to the following error message during the make step:
> 
> $ make
> ( cd ./src/binding/fortran/mpif_h && ./buildiface )
> Replacing mpif.h.in
> ( cd ./src/binding/fortran/use_mpi && ./buildiface )
> Replacing mpi_base.f90.in
> Replacing mpi_constants.f90.in
> Replacing mpi_t1.f90
> ( cd . && rm -f .err unusederr.txt ; rm -rf .tmp )
> ( cd . && \
>           ./maint/extracterrmsgs -careful=unusederr.txt \
>                                  -skip=src/util/multichannel/mpi.c \
>                                  `cat maint/errmsgdirs` > .tmp 2>.err )
> ( cd . && if test -s .err ; then rm -f .tmp ; cat .err ; exit 1 ; fi )
> Warning: attempt to redefine **fail.  Duplicate ignored.
> make: *** [src/mpi/errhan/defmsg.h] Error 1
> 
> Can anyone advise me about how to resolve this problem? Information on the Windows 10 Ubuntu distribution is here: 
> 
> http://www.howtogeek.com/249966/how-to-install-and-use-the-linux-bash-shell-on-windows-10/
> 
> My goa is to support users of OpenCoarrays (https://github.com/sourceryinstitute/opencoarrays), which uses MPICH to build and execute coarray Fortran codes with the GNU Fortran compiler (gfortran).
> 
> Best Regards,
> ________________________________
> Damian Rouson, Ph.D., P.E.
> President, Sourcery Institute
> http://www.sourceryinstitute.org
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> 
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