[gmx-users] Automake problem during installation 4.5.7

[CHEN, Yu Wai [ABCT]]

Dear all,

I am trying to install 4.5.7 (because I need to use a forcefield which is for 4.5.X) with MPI on our system here which runs Scientific Linux 6.3. I managed to do some SETENV to get the library and include paths set up, and
configure finished without issues. But when I tried to do "make", it gives me errors:

./configure: line 2050: syntax error near unexpected token `tar-ustar'
./configure: line 2050: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tar-ustar)'
make: *** [config.status] Error 2

I searched on the internet, someone asked the same question in 2013; an answer suggested to comment out the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(tar-ustar) line in configure.ac which I tried but did not work; i.e. led to other automake problems.

Can someone help me? Thanks.


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Yu Wai Chen 陳友維, PhD...................Senior Research Fellow
Hong Kong Polytechnic University                   +852-34008660
Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology


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