Re: Issue building parallel from source

[Ole Tange]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 6:08 PM Kevin Buchs <kevin.buchs@modular.com> wrote:

> I just wanted to report a problem I am seeing trying to build the latest 
> (20230722) on Ubuntu 22.04.
>
> Here are the steps I took:
>
> 1) download source via FTP: parallel-latest.tar.bz2
> 2) tar xf parallel-latest.tar.bz2
> 3) cd parallel-20230722
> 4) ./configure  # no problems reported
> 5) make
>
> It seems as if Make has nothing to do. It reports:
>
> make
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/parallel-20230722'
> Making all in src
> make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/parallel-20230722/src'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/parallel-20230722/src'
> make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/parallel-20230722'
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/parallel-20230722'
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/parallel-20230722'

This is expected: The source includes pre-generated files. 'make'
should really only build something if you change anything.

E.g.

  touch src/parallel.pod
  make


This is to make it easier to install from source: You do not need all
development tools to simply install.

> I also tried the install-sh script. It only reports:
>
> ./install-sh: no input file specified

You need to do:

  make install


/Ole