[gmx-users] clarification on configuration error: configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined.

[David van der Spoel]

David Mobley wrote:
> David,
> 
> I am not working in the same directory in which I previously compiled
> 3.3. And I'm just trying to run configure for the first time, so if I
> "make distclean", I get an error "No rule to make target distclean".
> 
> The other possibility is I might be in the wrong branch or
> something... I just followed the instructions on the web page:
> 
> cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.gromacs.org:/home/gmx/cvs login
> cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.gromacs.org:/home/gmx/cvs co gmx
> And then within the gmx directory:
> cvs update -A -r release-3-1-patches
> 
> Should that give me the current CVS for 3.3.1? If so, any further 
> suggestions?
no you're checking out the head branch and applying all the 3.3.1 
patches to it, which will be pretty messy.

you want to do
co -r release-3-3-patches gmx



> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> 
> On 8/29/06, David van der Spoel <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se> wrote:
>> David Mobley wrote:
>> > All,
>> >
>> > I'm running into an error when running configure after bootstrap on
>> > the CVS version of GROMACS 3.3.1. I've previously compiled the release
>> > version of 3.3 with no problems. The error is this:
>> >
>> > configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined.
>> >
>> > This has previously been discussed on the list (below), but I'm a bit
>> > confused about how to troubleshoot. Looking at my Makefile.am, it is
>> > clearly older than my configure script, which is the problem this is
>> > attributed to below. What other problems might cause this?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > David
>> >
>>
>> have you tried
>> make distclean
>> does wonders usually
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:41 AM, Florian Haberl wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Does anyone have a clue from what this error is and how it can be
>> >>>> fixed?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Update your gromacs version to 3.3.1
>> >>>
>> >>>> configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined
>> >>>
>> >>> Perhaps you have to update your system too, automake and or autoconf
>> >
>> >
>> >> That shouldn't be necessary - the automake/autoconf programs are only
>> >> used to create the configure script (if you are using the CVS
>> >> version, or if you edit some of the Makefile.am). Once a distribution
>> >> is created, "configure" is just a (very long) portable bourne shell
>> >> script.
>> >
>> >
>> >> However, configure checks to see if "automake/autoconf" has to be
>> >> rerun, and if the clock on your system and/or NFS is seriously off it
>> >> see a Makefile.am that is newer than the "configure" script. The
>> >> easiest solution in that case is to fix the clock and then unpack the
>> >> source again.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Erik
>> >
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