Lustre discuss - Aug 2009 - building lustre on debian unstable

Hello,

I''ve huge problems since several days to build lustre on unstable, the
cause seems to be something related to auto* stuff. 

configure is crashing with this error msg:
    checking whether to build kernel modules... no (linux-gnu)
    ../../configure: line 5542: syntax error near unexpected token
    `else'' ../../configure: line 5542: `else''
    make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 2

I used automake 1.10 and autoconf 2.64. On a older system (e.g. lenny
or etch) it builds without any problems. (The configure is generated
correctly).

Does anybody else hitted this problem? 

Greetings
Patrick

> Does anybody else hitted this problem? 
Hi all,

I ran  into a similar issue building some other packages on SID. I think the
problem is related to unstable using a newer version of the libtool/automake
toolchain than the system the source was packaged on.

The fix was to use the following runes to rebuild all the automake stuff, after
which I had no build problems.


        libtoolize --force --copy
        aclocal-1.9
        autoconf
        automake-1.9 --add-missing

and then:

./configure ...

Cheers,

Guy

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On Aug 06, 2009  14:34 +0200, Patrick Winnertz wrote:
> I''ve huge problems since several days to build lustre on unstable,
the
> cause seems to be something related to auto* stuff. 
> 
> configure is crashing with this error msg:
>     checking whether to build kernel modules... no (linux-gnu)
>     ../../configure: line 5542: syntax error near unexpected token
>     `else'' ../../configure: line 5542: `else''
>     make: *** [configure-stamp] Error 2
> 
> I used automake 1.10 and autoconf 2.64. On a older system (e.g. lenny
> or etch) it builds without any problems. (The configure is generated
> correctly).
Can you please submit a bug with the above, and attach the generated
configure and config.log files.  Also post the excerpt of the configure
file around line 5542 here would possibly allow someone else to diagnose
what is going wrong.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

Hey
> Can you please submit a bug with the above, and attach the generated
> configure and config.log files.  Also post the excerpt of the
> configure file around line 5542 here would possibly allow someone
> else to diagnose what is going wrong.
Done.. see #20383

I''ll add the requested files tomorrow morning when I''m back in
the
office.

Greetings
Patrick