<div dir="ltr">Trying to run a specific version of lustre client for our setup at work - I am running into a weird error message on ./configure <div><br></div><div>personally never seen this error before - checking for external module build support... configure: error: unknown; check config.log for details</div>
<div><br></div><div>GIT BUILD: </div><div><br></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);clear:left;width:1488px;line-height:1.2em!important;border:0px!important;margin:0px!important;padding:0px!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;min-height:inherit!important">
<tbody style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important"><tr style="font-size:1em!important;line-height:1.2em!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;min-height:inherit!important">
<td class="" style="width:1488px;font-size:1em!important;line-height:1.2em!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;border:0px dashed!important;overflow:visible!important;border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;outline:0px!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;min-height:inherit!important">
<div class="" title="Hint: double-click to select code" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px 0px 0px 0em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important;white-space:pre-wrap!important">
<div class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px 1em 0px 0em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important">
<code class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)!important">git clone git:</code><code class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important;color:rgb(0,130,0)!important">//<a href="http://git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release.git">git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release.git</a></code></div>
<div class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px 1em 0px 0em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important">
<code class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)!important">cd lustre-release/</code></div>
<div class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px 1em 0px 0em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important">
<code class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)!important">git checkout --track -b b2_3 origin/b2_3</code></div>
<div class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px 1em 0px 0em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important">
<code class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)!important">sh ./autogen.sh</code></div>
<div class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px 1em 0px 0em!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important">
<code class="" style="border-top-left-radius:0px!important;border-top-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-right-radius:0px!important;border-bottom-left-radius:0px!important;background-image:none!important;border:0px!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;line-height:1.2em!important;margin:0px!important;outline:0px!important;overflow:visible!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;font-family:Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace!important;font-size:1em!important;min-height:inherit!important;color:rgb(0,0,0)!important">./configure --disable-server</code></div>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div>Log: </div><div><br></div><div><div>root@linux-desktop:/home/imemadmin/lustre-release# ./configure --without-server<br></div><div>checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu</div>
<div>checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu</div><div>checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu</div><div>checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c</div><div>checking whether build environment is sane... yes</div>
<div>checking for gawk... no</div><div>checking for mawk... mawk</div><div>checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes</div><div>checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar</div><div>checking for gcc... gcc</div><div>
checking whether the C compiler works... yes</div><div>checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out</div><div>checking for suffix of executables... </div><div>checking whether we are cross compiling... no</div>
<div>checking for suffix of object files... o</div><div>checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes</div><div>checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes</div><div>checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed</div>
<div>checking for style of include used by make... GNU</div><div>checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3</div><div>checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E</div><div>checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep</div>
<div>checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E</div><div>checking for ANSI C header files... yes</div><div>checking for sys/types.h... yes</div><div>checking for sys/stat.h... yes</div><div>checking for stdlib.h... yes</div><div>
checking for string.h... yes</div><div>checking for memory.h... yes</div><div>checking for strings.h... yes</div><div>checking for inttypes.h... yes</div><div>checking for stdint.h... yes</div><div>checking for unistd.h... yes</div>
<div>checking whether to configure just enough for make dist... no</div><div>checking if this distro uses dpkg... yes</div><div>checking for buildid... none... congratulations, you must be on a tag</div><div>checking whether to build BGL features... no</div>
<div>checking for ranlib... ranlib</div><div>checking for buggy compiler... no known problems</div><div>checking size of unsigned long long... 8</div><div>---> size SIZEOF </div><div>---> size SIZEOF 8</div><div>checking whether to enable uoss... no</div>
<div>checking whether to enable posix osd... no</div><div>checking whether to build docs... no</div><div>checking whether to build utilities... yes</div><div>checking whether to install init scripts... no</div><div>checking whether to build Lustre tests... yes</div>
<div>checking whether to build Lustre server support... yes</div><div>checking whether to build Lustre client support... yes</div><div>checking whether to enable split support... no</div><div>checking whether to enable CDEBUG, CWARN... yes</div>
<div>checking whether to enable ENTRY/EXIT... yes</div><div>checking whether to enable LASSERT, LASSERTF... yes</div><div>checking sys/quota.h usability... yes</div><div>checking sys/quota.h presence... yes</div><div>checking for sys/quota.h... yes</div>
<div>checking whether to build kernel modules... yes (linux-gnu)</div><div>/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic</div><div>/usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-24-generic</div><div>checking for Linux sources... /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build</div>
<div>checking for /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build... yes</div><div>checking for Linux objects dir... /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build</div><div>checking for /boot/kernel.h... no</div><div>checking for /var/adm/running-kernel.h... no</div>
<div>checking for /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build/.config... yes</div><div>checking for /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build/include/generated/autoconf.h... yes</div><div>checking for /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build/include/linux/version.h... yes</div>
<div>checking for /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build/include/linux/kconfig.h... yes</div><div>checking if you are running user mode linux for x86_64... no (asm-um missing)</div><div>checking for /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/build/include/linux/namei.h... yes</div>
<div>checking if you are using Linux 2.6... yes</div><div>checking for external module build support... configure: error: unknown; check config.log for details</div></div></div></div>