'./configure --without-lsf' causes build to fail with "no/lib" error

[pmillet]

Background information

What version of Open MPI are you using? (e.g., v1.10.3, v2.1.0, git branch name and hash, etc.)

v2.1.1

Describe how Open MPI was installed (e.g., from a source/distribution tarball, from a git clone, from an operating system distribution package, etc.)

release tarball: openmpi-2.1.1.tar.gz

Please describe the system on which you are running

• Operating system/version:
  Scientific Linux 6
• Computer hardware:
  various
• Network type:
  various

---

Details of the problem

When trying to build OpenMPI without LSF support using --without-lsf in configure the build will eventually fail with the following error:

make[2]: Entering directory `/build/millet/ext/CMSSW_9_1_X/20170515_1016/a/BUILD/slc6_amd64_gcc530/external/openmpi/2.1.1/openmpi-2.1.1/orte/mca/ess/lsf'
  CC       ess_lsf_component.lo
  CC       ess_lsf_module.lo
  CCLD     mca_ess_lsf.la
../../../../libtool: line 7489: cd: no/lib: No such file or directory
libtool:   error: cannot determine absolute directory name of 'no/lib'
make[2]: *** [mca_ess_lsf.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/millet/ext/CMSSW_9_1_X/20170515_1016/a/BUILD/slc6_amd64_gcc530/external/openmpi/2.1.1/openmpi-2.1.1/orte/mca/ess/lsf'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/millet/ext/CMSSW_9_1_X/20170515_1016/a/BUILD/slc6_amd64_gcc530/external/openmpi/2.1.1/openmpi-2.1.1/orte'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /build/millet/ext/CMSSW_9_1_X/20170515_1016/a/tmp/rpm-tmp.Lu2Zvd (%build)
RPM build errors:
    Bad exit status from /build/millet/ext/CMSSW_9_1_X/20170515_1016/a/tmp/rpm-tmp.Lu2Zvd (%build)

A similar issue with a different set of configure options has been reported in #3447 (just with 'yes/lib' instead of 'no/lib').

[ggouaillardet]

thanks for the report,
can you please give this patch a try ?
note you will need recent autotools
it seems LSF is needed in /usr to reproduce the issue, and i do not have it.

diff --git a/config/orte_check_lsf.m4 b/config/orte_check_lsf.m4
index c32c1aa..416c83c 100644
--- a/config/orte_check_lsf.m4
+++ b/config/orte_check_lsf.m4
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ dnl
 # ORTE_CHECK_LSF(prefix, [action-if-found], [action-if-not-found])
 # --------------------------------------------------------
 AC_DEFUN([ORTE_CHECK_LSF],[
-    if test -z "$orte_check_lsf_happy" ; then
+    AS_IF([test -z "$orte_check_lsf_happy"],[
 	AC_ARG_WITH([lsf],
 		    [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-lsf(=DIR)],
 				    [Build LSF support])])
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([ORTE_CHECK_LSF],[
 	AC_ARG_WITH([lsf-libdir],
 		    [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-lsf-libdir=DIR],
 				    [Search for LSF libraries in DIR])])
+        AS_IF([test "$with_lsf" != "no"],[
 	OPAL_CHECK_WITHDIR([lsf-libdir], [$with_lsf_libdir], [libbat.*])
 
 	# Defaults
@@ -123,7 +124,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([ORTE_CHECK_LSF],[
 	LIBS="$orte_check_lsf_$1_save_LIBS"
 
 	OPAL_SUMMARY_ADD([[Resource Managers]],[[LSF]],[$1],[$orte_check_lsf_happy])
-    fi
+        ],[orte_check_lsf_happy=no])
+    ])
 
     AS_IF([test "$orte_check_lsf_happy" = "yes"],
           [$1_LIBS="[$]$1_LIBS $orte_check_lsf_LIBS"

[pmillet]

I tried your patch. However on the test system I fails with the following error

/openmpi-2.1.1/config/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.15: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.15' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
         'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
         The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
         It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
         <http://www.perl.org/>
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127

The automake version on the system is 1.14.1. Is there any way to fix it with this version or is updating automake mandatory here?

[ggouaillardet]

@pmillet yes, recent autotools are mandatory since you need to run autogen.pl before configure
see the requirements at https://www.open-mpi.org//source/building.php
you can either update autotools, or simply apply the patch on a rhel7 clone, then

./autogen.pl
./configure
make dist

and then move the tarball to your scientific linux 6 box, and

./configure --without-lsf

[jjhursey]

@pmillet It looks like you took the patch from @ggouaillardet into your other project. I'm assuming that means it worked for you. PR #4204 contains the full version of the fix. Let us know if you have any problems with that patch.

I was able to reproduce by putting the LSF library in the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS then running --without-lsf. PR #4204 fixes that issue, and will need to ported to the various release branches.

[pmillet]

The patch from @ggouaillardet did solve them problem I had.

[jjhursey]

The fix has been integrated into the v3.0.x branch (PR #4226) and v2.x branch (PR #4227) so we can close this issue as fixed. Since v2.0.x is at end-of-life we did not port it to that branch.