>Thanks for the report. Someone reported pretty much the same issue to
me off-list a few days ago for RHEL5.
>
>It looks like RHEL5 / 6 ship with Autoconf 2.63, and have a
/usr/lib/rpm/macros that defines %configure to include options such as
--program-suffix. We bootstrapped Open MPI v1.5 with Autoconf 2.65,
which does not understand the --program-suffix option.
>
>I don't know why AC 2.65 dropped the --program-suffix option, but this
seems to be where we are.
>
>I've emailed a contact at Red Hat asking for advice on what to do here
-- I can't imagine Open MPI is the only package in this situation.
I confirm troubles on SLES10sp3 x86_64 come from
/usr/lib/rpm/macros (from rpm 4.4.2-43.36.1 package)
which includes:
# grep program-prefix /usr/lib/rpm/macros
--program-prefix=%{?_program_prefix} \\\
Regards,
Stephane Rouberol
>
>On Oct 19, 2010, at 4:47 AM, livelfs wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> this is to report that building openmpi-1.5 from rpm fails on Linux
>> SLES10sp3 x86_64,
>> due to --program-prefix switch use now checked in configure script
>> delivered with 1.5.
>>
>> rpm is version 4.4.2-43.36.1
>>
>> rpmbuild --rebuild SRPMS/openmpi-1.5.0.src.rpm --define
>> 'configure_options CC="/softs/gcc/4.5.1/bin/gcc
>> " CXX="/softs/gcc/4.5.1/bin/g++
>> " F77="/softs/gcc/4.5.1/bin/gfortran
>> " FC="/softs/gcc/4.5.1/bin/gfortran "
>> --prefix=/opt/openmpi/1.5.0/gfortran-4.5.1-gcc-4.5.1-BLCR-PBS
>> --enable-static --enable-shared
>> --with-wrapper-ldflags="-Wl,-rpath
>> -Wl,/opt/openmpi/1.5.0/gfortran-4.5.1-gcc-4.5.1-BLCR-PBS/lib64
>> -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/softs/blcr/0.8/lib"
>> --with-memory-manager=ptmalloc2
>> --enable-orterun-prefix-by-default --with-openib
>> --disable-ipv6 --with-ft=cr
>> --enable-ft-thread --enable-mpi-threads
>> --with-blcr=/softs/blcr/0.8
>> --enable-mpirun-prefix-by-default
>> --with-tm=/opt/pbs/default
>> --with-wrapper-libs="-lpthread -lutil -lrt"' --define '_prefix
>> /opt/openmpi/1.5.0/gfortran-4.5.1-gcc-4.5.1-BLCR-PBS' --define '_name
>> openmpi_gfortran-4.5.1-gcc-4.5.1-BLCR-PBS' --define '_topdir /scratch'
>> --define '_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0' --define
>> 'use_default_rpm_opt_flags 0'
>>
>> ends with:
>> [...]
>> configure: WARNING: *** This configure script does not support
>> --program-prefix, --program-suffix or --program-transform-name. Users
>> are recommended to instead use --prefix with a unique directory and make
>> symbolic links as desired for renaming.
>> configure: error: *** Cannot continue
>>
>>
>> In the present environment (SLES10sp3 x86_64, rpm 4.4.2-43.36.1),
>> rpmbuild --rebuild produces and execs a temporary shell script calling
>> configure
>> with an *empty* --program-prefix switch (--program-prefix=).
>>
>> It works with openmpi 1.4.3
>> but configure script from openmpi 1.5 is more picky about using
>> --program-prefix, --program-suffix or --program-transform-name:
>>
>> # diff /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/openmpi-1.5/configure
>> /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/openmpi-1.4.3/configure | grep program-prefix
>> < # Suggestion from Paul Hargrove to disable --program-prefix and
>> < { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: *** This
>> configure script does not support --program-prefix, --program-suffix or
>> --program-transform-name. Users are recommended to instead use --prefix
>> with a unique directory and make symbolic links as desired for
>> renaming." >&5
>> < $as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: *** This configure script does not support
>> --program-prefix, --program-suffix or --program-transform-name. Users
>> are recommended to instead use --prefix with a unique directory and make
>> symbolic links as desired for renaming." >&2;}
>>
>> If I remove the new control on --program-prefix in openmpi-1.5 configure
>> script, the 1.5 build becomes OK.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Stephane Rouberol
>>
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