It appears you have found a bug in Libtool, the package we use for
hiding all the portability issues in building libraries. Thankfully,
Open MPI has been befriended by a Libtool developer and he provided a
workaround for your problem (Thanks Ralf!). If you configure with
the option LD="ld
Dear Brian and George,
We could not check your fix because the nightly tarball was not updated
accordingly ;-).
I have discovered today the 1.0.1 version on the open-mpi web page and
Francoise Roch tested it. The make goes a little further but still
fails. Plesase find the logs in attachment