Re: [Starpu-devel] starpu autogen error with libtool on mac os x

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@inria.fr>]

Florent Pruvost, on Mon 22 Aug 2016 14:57:41 +0200, wrote:
> Le 22/08/2016 13:24, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> >Florent Pruvost, on Mon 22 Aug 2016 13:04:02 +0200, wrote:
> >>I have tried to build starpu-1.2.0rc6 on a mac os x 10.9.5 and I've got 
> >>the
> >>following error during the execution of the autogen script:
> >Why are you executing the autogen script?  This is really not needed
> >unless you have modified configure.ac or some Makefile.am file.
> 
> Because in some systems the version of automake can be older than the one
> used in the configure script leading to some non compatibility issues.

That should not pose problem: unless you modify configure.ac or
Makefile.am, automake is not used for building starpu, all the necessary
output generated by starpu is available in the tarball.

> In addition, we may use it in some starpu versions where the configure
> script is not existing.

All tarball should be having the configure script, if some don't, we
have to fix that problem.

In case you checkout from svn, autoconf is needed indeed. It is however
possible to run it on another system, and use make dist to build a
tarball which shouldn't need automake at all for building.

Samuel