[gmx-users] Automake problem during installation 4.5.7

[Justin Lemkul]

On 7/4/17 11:56 PM, CHEN, Yu Wai [ABCT] wrote:
> 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 

Any force field that is in the format of version 4.5 is compatible with all 
newer GROMACS versions.  I recommend that you don't try to install antiquated 
and unsupported software.  Old code on newer hardware, with newer compilers 
rarely works.  Try the latest version of GROMACS.

-Justin

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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