Greetings. I am a developer on the Open MPI project (www.open-mpi.org), a long-time user of the GNU Autotools. Our latest release is the 1.5 series; the configury that ships in the Open MPI v1.5 distribution tarball is bootstrapped with Autoconf 2.65, Automake 1.11, and Libtool 2.2.6b. We're running into a problem when trying to build RPMs on RHEL5, RHEL6, and SLES 11. The issue is that these distros' /usr/lib/rpm/macros that defines %configure to include options such as --program-suffix, but since our configure script was bootstrapped with AC 2.65, it doesn't understand --program-suffix. Specifically: when you "rpmbuild --rebuild open-mpi-srpm", our configure script errors and aborts because it doesn't -- the RPM does not build. An obvious workaround is to hand-edit the /usr/lib/rpm/macros file to remove the errant options, but this is not a good / general solution. I've tried to ask some assistance from Red Hat but I haven't been able to get a response. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this issue? I would find it hard to believe that we're the only package running into this issue. Thanks! -- Jeff Squyres jsquyres@xxxxxxxxx For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
