Openmpi-4.1.4 installation issue

[diffracteD]

Hi,
I downloaded Openmpi-4.1.4 and tried to install on my server with instructions mentioned in INSTALL file. But it failed. I'm not sure what this error message means.
Steps taken to install:

$ sudo ../configure --with-cuda
$ sudo autoreconf -f -i ../configure.ac
$ sudo make all install

Error after make install step:

....
....
Making all in mca/compress
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/local/openmpi-4.1.4/build/opal/mca/compress'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/openmpi-4.1.4/build/opal/mca/compress'
Making all in mca/crs
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/local/openmpi-4.1.4/build/opal/mca/crs'
  GENERATE opal_crs.7
Option package-version requires an argument
Usage: ../../../../config/make_manpage.pl --package-name=<package name> --package-version=<package version> --ompi-date=<ompi date> --opal-date=<opal date> --orte-date=<orte date> --input=<input file> --output=<output file> [--nocxx] [ --nofortran] [--nof08]
make[2]: *** [Makefile:2245: opal_crs.7] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/openmpi-4.1.4/build/opal/mca/crs'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2430: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/openmpi-4.1.4/build/opal'
make: *** [Makefile:1912: all-recursive] Error 1

I'm not sure why it's failing.
Please help me out here.

Thanks.

[ggouaillardet]

Assuming you created a build (like) directory in the source tree and ran from there, you should only need to

$ ../configure --with-cuda
$ make all
$ sudo make install

[diffracteD]

This didn’t work.
Although, I found out somewhere, running ./autogen.pl — force before make all install works.
And it worked in my case too.
Thanks.

[jsquyres]

Per @ggouaillardet's comment: he's right -- you should not run autoreconf. That will almost certainly give you incorrect results. I could not find anywhere in the Open MPI v4.1.x INSTALL file where it says to run autoreconf -- can you point to where you found that documentation?

To be clear: You should be able to take a freshly-expanded tarball (not one where you have previously run autoreconf or autogen.pl) and be able to run configure and make all and make install.

You can run autogen.pl --force -- there's usually not any harm in doing that. But for end users, it should be unnecessary.

Since you have this working, I'll close the issue. Feel free to open a new issue if you have new questions.

[lxsjgzs]

The command $sudo autogen.pl --force was run before $sudo ./configure CC=gcc-12 CXX=g++-12 and sudo make all, and it seemed to work for me as well on my Intel Mac.