Indeed, it is indicative of an installation on a cross-mounted filesystem where the user is foolishly trying to use autotools built in a PPC64 environment within an x86_64 one. Sorry for being stupid. Jeff On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM, David Goodell (dgoodell) <[email protected]> wrote:

This situation is usually a symptom of some underlying autoconf/autotools configuration problem (like a busted m4 install or 32-/64-bit compat issue). For some reason the sanity check before looking for a specific version is either very weak or missing (I can't remember off the top of my head).

Also, make sure that 2.69 is a known version to the script (though I think it is).

-Dave

On Jun 12, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Jeff Hammond <[email protected]> wrote:

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Any suggestions?

Jeff

[jhammond@login1 git]$ ./autogen.sh

#################################### ## Replicating confdb (and similar) ####################################

syncing 'src/mpl' --> 'src/pm/hydra/mpl' syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/mpi/romio/confdb' syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/mpl/confdb' syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/pm/hydra/confdb' syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/pm/hydra/mpl/confdb' syncing 'confdb' --> 'test/mpi/confdb' syncing 'confdb' --> 'src/armci/m4'

#################################### ## Checking user environment ####################################

Verifying the location of autogen.sh... done Checking if autotools are in the same location... yes, all in /home/jhammond/TOOLS Checking for autoconf version... bad autoconf installation You either do not have autoconf in your path or it is too old (version 2.67 or higher required). You may be able to use

autoconf --version

Unfortunately, there is no standard format for the version output and it changes between autotools versions. In addition, some versions of autoconf choose among many versions and provide incorrect output).

[jhammond@login1 git]$ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

-- Jeff Hammond Argonne Leadership Computing Facility University of Chicago Computation Institute [email protected] / (630) 252-5381 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhammond https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/parts/index.php/User:Jhammond ALCF docs: http://www.alcf.anl.gov/user-guides

-- Jeff Hammond Argonne Leadership Computing Facility University of Chicago Computation Institute [email protected] / (630) 252-5381 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhammond https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/parts/index.php/User:Jhammond ALCF docs: http://www.alcf.anl.gov/user-guides