[CIG-SHORT] Problem when building Pylith from source.

[Matthew Knepley]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Laura Blanco Martin <lblancomartin at lbl.gov
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build Pylith from source in Ubuntu 15.04 and I get an error
> when building HDF5:
>
> make[6]: *** [h5tools_dump.lo] Error 1
> make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith/hdf5-build/tools/lib'
> make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith/hdf5-build/tools'
> make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith/hdf5-build'
> make[3]: *** [hdf5] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith'
> make[2]: *** [installed_hdf5] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith'
> make[1]: *** [installed_netcdf] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith'
> make: *** [installed_pylith] Error 2
>
> I have tried to build other versions of the package available in
> http://geoweb.cse.ucdavis.edu/~buildbot/deps/
>
> but I always get the same error. Following suggestions in the install
> file, I have also tried to change the features/packages selected when doing
> configure, but the error is always the same.
> I have built Pylith from source before, on a Virtual Machine. Now I am
> using a Liinux PC. Could the problem be related to incompatibilities
> between make and autoreconf, etc ? At the beginning I was using make v4,
> and it seems that it has some backwards incompatibilities. I have installed
> v3.81, but I get the same error. When using make v4, before line "make[6]:
> *** [h5tools_dump.lo] Error 1" above, I used to get a line "Makefile.553 :
> recipe for target 'h5tools_dump.lo' failed".
>

We need to see the entire error. It should show the compile line and why it
failed.

  Thanks,

    Matt


> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laura
>
>
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