[GenABEL-dev] LATEX error on autoreconf

Mon Oct 27 12:32:12 CET 2014

Hi Alvaro,

On 27-10-14 12:23, Frank, Alvaro Jesus wrote:
> Hi Lennart,
> 
> My solution was simlier, check for mpicc/mpixx and done, no need for
> special scripts. For me as a developer it might not be a problem, but
> I am testing user environments and I cant ask users to do download
> those special features. Is there a way to revert it to a system where
> a conditional check is used for mpicc/mpixx and if not use normal
> g++?

I agree with you that the average user shouldn't be bothered with
unnecessary downloads. However, when we create a tar-ball for
distribution (make dist), the required macros will be included (a user
that untars the tar.gz file will not need to run autoreconf). In fact,
neither automake, nor autoconf are required by the user.
So there is no problem for the end user here.

Of course, someone who does an SVN checkout must run autoreconf, so this
person (which I consider to be a developer) should have autoconf,
automake and the autoconf archives installed.

Best regards,

Lennart.

> 
> -Alvaro
> 
> For the record, any request made to user gets escalated to sysadmins
> and then this is what happens:
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------- Daer Mr. Frank,
> 
> i needed some time to get it compiled, each compiling one day.
> 
> It comes out, that for installation gcc 4.6 and 4.9 conflicts in
> system libraries with same name.
> 
> Due to the fact, that 223 packages depend on gcc 4.6 i can not update
> these libraries.
> 
> Sorry, but gcc 4.6 is highest gcc version i can provide.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> On Tuesday 23 September 2014 15:35:29 you wrote:
>> Dear Mr ----------,
>> 
>> Thank you for your help with Autoconf. I have managed to make
>> advancements but I am in the need for a newer version of GCC, would
>> this also be possible? 4.9 would be ok. Thank you in  advance for
>> any help on the matter!
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Alvaro
>> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Mr. Frank,
>> 
>> autoconf Version 2.69 is now installed under
>> /opt/autoconf/2.69/bin.
>> 
>> To use it in bash, use:
>> 
>> export PATH=/opt/autoconf/2.69/bin:$PATH
>> 
>> to see:
>> 
>> autoconf --version
>> 
>> Current standard version 2.63 could not be replaced for system
>> stability.
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________ From:
> genabel-devel-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> [genabel-devel-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org] on behalf of L.C.
> Karssen [lennart at karssen.org] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 12:17
> PM To: genabel-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org Subject: Re:
> [GenABEL-dev] LATEX error on autoreconf
> 
> Hi Alvaro,
> 
> On 27-10-14 10:30, Frank, Alvaro Jesus wrote:
>> There is another error on a different system with the same raw
>> checkout:
>> 
>> user at ubuntu:~/Desktop/omicabelnomm/mergeTest/OmicABELnoMM$
>> ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install...
>> /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane...
>> yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking
>> for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets
>> $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables...
>> yes checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached)
>> yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of
>> Makefiles... yes ./configure: line 3154: syntax error near
>> unexpected token `test' ./configure: line 3154:
>> `AX_PROG_CXX_MPI(test "x$with_mpi" != "xno",'
>> 
>> Note that my system DOES have mpi and that it compiled without
>> issues.
> 
> That's because the AX_PROG_CXX_MPI autoconf macro is not part of the 
> default autoconf install. See the SVN log message of commit 1849 for 
> pointers on how to solve this error. 
> https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/OmicABELnoMM/configure.ac?root=genabel&view=log#rev1849
>
> 
>> 
>> It is difficult to solve problems if I wasn't the one introducing
>> them.
> 
> Indeed. But it's a good idea to review log messages of the changes
> that were done by others ;-).
> 
> 
>> 
>> I appreciate any help on the matter.
> 
> Let me know if you keep having troubles with this.
> 
> 
> Lennart.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> -Alvaro
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 
*From:* genabel-devel-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
>> [genabel-devel-bounces at lists.r-forge.r-project.org] on behalf of
>> Frank, Alvaro Jesus [alvaro.frank at rwth-aachen.de] *Sent:* Monday,
>> October 27, 2014 10:21 AM *To:*
>> genabel-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org *Subject:* [GenABEL-dev]
>> LATEX error on autoreconf
>> 
>> Is there a reason for this to happen? (pure checkout from the
>> repo)
>> 
>> /opt/omicabelnomm/OmicABELnoMM> autoreconf -fi Makefile.am:194:
>> BUILD_latexdoc does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Makefile.am:195:
>> HAVE_PDFLATEX does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL autoreconf:
>> automake failed with exit status: 1
>> 
>> 
>> Any help is appreciated,
>> 
>> -Alvaro
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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