[Swarm-Support] packages seem up to snuff

[Carlo C. Maley]

That machine has:
gcc 3.3
autoconf 2.57
automake 1.7.2
tcl
tk
zlib
libpng
blt

- Carlo

Paul E. Johnson wrote:

> If you want to create a user account for me on your Suse system, I 
> would be glad to log in and look around.
>
> libffi is not required any more for swarm.
>
> The autoconf messages mean that it cannot find autoconf and automake 
> in your path. It may be you have automake15 or some such renamed thing.
>
> You need autoconf-2.52 and automake-1.6.3, incidentally.
>
> It looks like you are not using a separate build directory in your 
> example below.  That's not good.
>
> You don't mention which gcc you have, but 3.2 generally does not work, 
> but 3.3 does, and 3.0.x did.
> pj
>
> Carlo C. Maley wrote:
>
> > Well, this is what we've managed to do so far:
> >
> >     * Installed all of the 'required packages' except libffi from
> >       RPM.  libffi appears to have been rolled into GCC now, but I
> >       can't find it any longer (I thought I saw a reference to it
> >       being deprecated).  Anyway, I installed that from the last
> >       source code tarball.
> >     * Downloaded swarm.
> >     * cd swarm-2.1.147.20030812
> >     * ./configure --with-default-dir=/usr --with-ffidir=/usr/local
> >     * make
> >
> > make runs for awhile and comes back with the following:
> >
> >     make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/src'
> >     make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/src'
> >     Makefile:378: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> >     make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/swarm-2.1.147.20030812/src'
> >     make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >     make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/swarm-2.1.147.20030812'
> >     make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> > Looking back through the output from make, I see that it issues 
> > warnings that 'automake' and 'autoconf' are missing on my system.  
> > Except, that they are installed.  The warnings do note that they are 
> > only needed if I'm modifying some of the other files before I run 
> > configure.  
> > Anyway, that is the latest run.  I have tried variations on this 
> > earlier.  I also tried fiddling with the RedHat RPM, but the newer 
> > RPMs from RedHat really want to be installed on redhat. :-(
> >  
> > One of the attempts, I did try 'aclocal;automake;autoconf', thinking 
> > that perhaps I could get a better configure input file.  That didn't 
> > really work any better.  In fact, configure failed before it would 
> > build the Makefile.
> >  
> > I blew away the directory and re-extracted from the tarball each time 
> > to insure a clean build directory.
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > - Carlo
> > --
> > Carlo C. Maley, Ph.D.
> > Staff Scientist
> > Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
> > P.O. Box 19024
> > Seattle, WA 98109
> >
> > phone: 206-667-4615
> > fax: 206-667-6132
> > cell: 206-355-7425
> >
> > http://www.fhcrc.org/phs/barretts/cmaley/
> >  
> >
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--
Carlo C. Maley, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
P.O. Box 19024
Seattle, WA 98109

phone: 206-667-4615
fax: 206-667-6132
cell: 206-355-7425

http://www.fhcrc.org/phs/barretts/cmaley/