Re: [Libmesh-users] installation error

[Paul H. S. <hui...@gm...>]

The option that gives me trouble seems to be --prefix. Do you see what is wrong with that? 


On Sep 17, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Paul Hui Sun <hui...@gm...> wrote:

> Thanks Ben. The problem is that I want it to config with certain options. Right now, it config without options, but it gives me problem if I config with certain options. 
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> On Sep 17, 2012, at 9:12 AM, "Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)" <ben...@na...> wrote:
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>> So config.guess and config.sub contain code to determine your system type - in guessing what you had was from an older invocation of bootstrap, which wrote config files that clearly didn't know about your new OS. 
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>> Then maybe you updated the OS either explicitly or through the apple update tool?
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>> In any case, rerunning bootstrap would have generated new config.* files that had better understand the platform you are running!
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>> So is all well then?
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>> -Ben
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>> On Sep 17, 2012, at 11:08 AM, "Paul Hui Sun" <hui...@gm...> wrote:
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>>> Yes, I just tried ./bootstrap, and then ./configure, this time it works now. I'm wondering if the options I give before has some errors? Here is the config.log as attached.  
>>> <config.log>
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>>> On Sep 17, 2012, at 8:57 AM, "Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)" <ben...@na...> wrote:
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>>>> Looks like this is a very new OS - and is this the libmesh.automake branch?
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>>>> Have you rerun ./bootstrap before running configure?
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>>>> The output line
>>>> "configure:2970: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub   failed"
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>>>> Is clearly unexpected!
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>>>> -Ben 
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