Re: Fortran libraries on the Blue Gene with mpi

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Christian Rössel wrote on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:28:51PM CEST:
> > re-boostrapping works now but the missing makeinfo causes new problems:
> > 
> > /u/fzj301zm/BlueGene/fortran_libraries_on_the_blue_gene_with_mpi/libtool/libltdl/config/missing:
> > line 54: makeinfo: command not found
> > WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
> >          you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file
> >          indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual.  The spurious
> >          call might also be the consequence of using a buggy `make' (AIX,
> >          DU, IRIX).  You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or
> >          the `GNU make' package.  Grab either from any GNU archive site.
> > make[2]: *** [../doc/libtool.info] Error 1
> > 
> > I will install makeinfo to avoid further problems.

> I installed makeinfo (texinfo-4.13) and re-bootstrapped ...

Yeah, sorry about that, I should have known that you would also need to
use
  make MAKEINFO=true

> ... and ran into the next error:
> 
> /u/fzj301zm/BlueGene/fortran_libraries_on_the_blue_gene_with_mpi/libtool/libltdl/config/missing:
> line 54: help2man: command not found
> WARNING: `help2man' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
>          you modified a dependency of a manual page.  You may need the
>          `Help2man' package in order for those modifications to take
>          effect.  You can get `Help2man' from any GNU archive site.
> gmake[2]: *** [../doc/libtoolize.1] Error 1
> 
> After installing help2man I was able to run the tests.

This, OTOH, is a bug that will be fixed in the next Automake release.
The need for help2man will then only arise for "make dist", even with
version control checkouts which contain no pre-generated man pages.
However, for others encountering this bug: you can also work around
it by repeatedly running "make" for a few times.

I've pushed the patch for bootstrap now.

Cheers, and thanks for persevering,
Ralf