[gmx-developers] CVS installation problem: error: m4_require: circular dependency of AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++).eml

[Roland Schulz]

Hi Arjun,

this error comes from aclocal which is part of autmake. Lonestar the only
TACC machine I have access to also only has automake 1.9 installed and gives
this error. You can either install a newer version of automake, request them
to install a newer version or you run bootstrap on another machine and copy
the whole directory afterwards on Ranger. In case you do the last approach
you will have to recopy the folder when you do "cvs up"  later and there are
changes in configure.ac or Makefile.am.

Let us know how well you can scale on Ranger. On the similar Jaguar (Cray
XT4) I can scale to about 175 atoms/core.

Roland

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Arjun Narayanan <arjun.nufc at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi everyone,
>
> i am trying to install the latest CVS version of gromacs to take advantage
> of the better scaling to make use of supercomputer time for a pretty large
> simulation ( > 200,000 atoms ).  this is what i get when i do "uname -a"
> where i am compiling:
> Linux login4.ranger.tacc.utexas.edu 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL_lustre.1.6.5.1smp #1
> SMP Wed Jun 18 19:11:05 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> i first tried installation with the automake and autoconf they had -
> versions 1.9 and 2.59, respectively.  i then tried installation with
> autoconf 2.61 and m4 1.4.11 ... both times i got errors ( at the bottom of
> this message ) when trying to run ./bootstrap .
>
> i looked around the web and couldn't find anything that helped me, and
> nothing for Gromacs about this.  i found the following two mails that may be
> relevant, but i don't know how to translate what they are saying about their
> own autoconf problems to what i need to do to get the gromacs cvs
> installation working.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/libtool@gnu.org/msg08627.html
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.bugs/6337
>
> thanks in advance for your help,
> arjun
>
> ERROR MESSAGE FROM ./bootstrap
>
> configure.ac:588: error: m4_require: circular dependency of
> AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++)
> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:297: AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded
> from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2359: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from...
> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:516: AS_IF is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/headers.m4:87: AC_CHECK_HEADER is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/headers.m4:195: AC_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/programs.m4:211: _AC_TOOL_WARN is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/programs.m4:270: AC_CHECK_TOOLS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/c.m4:763: AC_PROG_CXX is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/c.m4:736: AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++) is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:297: AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded
> from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2405: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:516: AS_IF is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1898: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1911: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/libs.m4:121: AC_CHECK_LIB is expanded from...
> configure.ac:588: the top level
> autom4te: /share/home/01017/anarayan/utils/bin//m4 failed with exit status:
> 1
> aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> configure.ac:588: error: m4_require: circular dependency of
> AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++)
> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:297: AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded
> from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2359: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from...
> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:516: AS_IF is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/headers.m4:87: AC_CHECK_HEADER is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/headers.m4:195: AC_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/programs.m4:211: _AC_TOOL_WARN is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/programs.m4:270: AC_CHECK_TOOLS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/c.m4:763: AC_PROG_CXX is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/c.m4:736: AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++) is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:297: AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded
> from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2405: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:516: AS_IF is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1898: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1911: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/libs.m4:121: AC_CHECK_LIB is expanded from...
> configure.ac:588: the top level
> autom4te: /share/home/01017/anarayan/utils/bin//m4 failed with exit status:
> 1
> autoheader: '/share/home/01017/anarayan/utils//bin/autom4te' failed with
> exit status: 1
> configure.ac:588: error: m4_require: circular dependency of
> AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++)
> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:297: AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded
> from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2359: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from...
> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:516: AS_IF is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/headers.m4:87: AC_CHECK_HEADER is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/headers.m4:195: AC_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/programs.m4:211: _AC_TOOL_WARN is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/programs.m4:270: AC_CHECK_TOOLS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/c.m4:763: AC_PROG_CXX is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/c.m4:736: AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++) is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:297: AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded
> from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2405: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:516: AS_IF is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1898: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1911: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/libs.m4:121: AC_CHECK_LIB is expanded from...
> configure.ac:588: the top level
> autom4te: /share/home/01017/anarayan/utils/bin//m4 failed with exit status:
> 1
> automake: autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> configure.ac:588: error: m4_require: circular dependency of
> AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++)
> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:297: AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded
> from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2359: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from...
> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:516: AS_IF is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/headers.m4:87: AC_CHECK_HEADER is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/headers.m4:195: AC_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/programs.m4:211: _AC_TOOL_WARN is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/programs.m4:270: AC_CHECK_TOOLS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/c.m4:763: AC_PROG_CXX is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/c.m4:736: AC_LANG_COMPILER(C++) is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:297: AC_LANG_COMPILER_REQUIRE is expanded
> from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2405: AC_LINK_IFELSE is expanded from...
> ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:516: AS_IF is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1898: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1911: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/libs.m4:121: AC_CHECK_LIB is expanded from...
> configure.ac:588: the top level
> autom4te: /share/home/01017/anarayan/utils/bin//m4 failed with exit status:
> 1
>
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