[Lustre-discuss] build issues with whamcloud 1.8.6.80

[Michael Barnes]

I found this very useful:

  http://wiki.whamcloud.com/display/PUB/Walk-thru-+Build+Lustre+1.8+on+CentOS+5.5+or+5.6+from+Whamcloud+git

The sh ./autogen.sh

step got rid of those funny undefined macros and whatnot.

-mb

On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:19 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:

> i'm sure i'm doing something dumb, but i can't get 1.8.6.80 (git tag
> v1_8_6_80 from whamcloud's git) to even configure.  i was trying to
> use the build instructions from sun's lustre site
> (http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Patchless_Client).
> 
> if i'm using a bad version or someone can point me to the place to
> download 1.8.6 from sun, i'd be thrilled to try that.  i just heard a
> lot of talk about 1.8.6 on this list and was hoping to use it but
> couldn't find it at sun.
> 
> here's what went down:
> 
> autoconf - tried v2.13 and v2.50 and got the same result with both -
> errors on first run, success on second run:
> 
> root at bigbird49:~/lustre-release# autoconf2.50
> configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>      See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:14: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> root at bigbird49:~/lustre-release# autoconf2.50
> root at bigbird49:~/lustre-release#
> 
> then configure --with-linux=/usr/src/linux (which in my case happens
> to be a 2.6.32-32 ubuntu-patched kernel source tree)
> 
> root at bigbird49:~/lustre-release# ./configure --with-linux=/usr/src/linux
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-linux
> ./configure: line 1776: syntax error near unexpected token `LDISKFS_ENABLED,'
> ./configure: line 1776: `AM_CONDITIONAL(LDISKFS_ENABLED, false)'
> root at bigbird49:~/lustre-release#
> 
> 
> so there were errors on the autoconf, and configure didn't recognize
> with --with-linux directive, and then failed to run anyway.
> 
> help?  & thanks in advance!
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