[Dune] dune-alugrid installation issue

[Arya Fallahi]

I remember I had a somehow similar problem and the solution was adding the
path to pkg.m4 to AC_LOCAL_PATH. Maybe if you do the same thing it helps.

Regards,
Arya

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Jö Fahlke <jorrit at jorrit.de> wrote:

> Am Thu,  4. Jun 2015, 19:30:54 +0000 schrieb Dunlop, Matt:
> > Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 19:30:54 +0000
> > From: "Dunlop, Matt" <matthew.dunlop at warwick.ac.uk>
> > To: "dune at dune-project.org" <dune at dune-project.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Dune] dune-alugrid installation issue
> >
> > Hi Jo,
> >
> > I sent a reply yesterday, but the configure file was about 150kb too
> large and the post doesn’t seem to have been approved. I’ve attached an
> extract from the configure file instead this time, starting from line
> 36270. The previous reply is below
>
> Alright, the relevont excerpt is this:
> ======================================================================
>     export
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PSURFACEROOT/lib/pkgconfig:$PSURFACEROOT/lib64/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
>     PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PSURFACE, psurface,
>         HAVE_PSURFACE="1"
>         AC_DEFINE(PSURFACE_NAMESPACE,
>                   psurface::,
>                   [The namespace prefix of the psurface library])
> ...
> ======================================================================
>
> What is happening here is as follows: PKG_CHECK_MODULES was called,
> probably
> like this (or similar):
> ======================================================================
>     PKG_CHECK_MODULES([PSURFACE], [psurface], [
>         HAVE_PSURFACE="1"
>         AC_DEFINE(PSURFACE_NAMESPACE,
>                   psurface::,
>                   [The namespace prefix of the psurface library])
>         ...
>     ])
> ======================================================================
>
> However, since pkg.m4 was not in the search path, there was not definition
> of
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES, so it did not get replaced by autoconf.  As a result,
> the
> argument list was processed as any other text would have been, i.e. one
> level
> of quotes ([]) was removed, and no further substitutions were done inside
> the
> formerly quoted sections.
>
> So you really need to get pkg.m4 working.
>
> > ------------
> >
> > Okay, so the mac port of pkg-config is installed in /opt/local/bin/
> rather than /usr/local/bin like the autotools. If I uninstall pkg-config
> and reinstall it in /usr/local/bin however, I get the following error
> immediately upon trying to call dunecontrol:
> >
> > /usr/local/lib/dunecontrol: file not found
>
> This is a strange error.  It could have a number of reasons:
> 1. The location of dunecontrol moved, and you started dunecontrol with an
>    explicit path (as given above).  Check that /usr/local/lib/dunecontrol
>    exists:
>
>      ls -l /usr/local/lib/dunecontrol
>
>    If /usr/local/lib/dunecontrol turns out to be a symlink, follow that,
> until
>    you either find a dead link or a real file.  Make sure the file you
> find is
>    executable.
>
> 2. The location of dunecontrol moved, but your shell still remebers the old
>    place.  Either start a new shell or clear the cache of the shell ("hash
>    -r") and retry.
>
> 3. dunecontrol specifies a non-existing interpreter.  Check whether the
>    interpreter specified in the first line (the one starting with "#!") of
>    /usr/local/lib/dunecontrol exists and is executable.
>
> 4. Some command invoked by dunecontrol does not exists.  Normally I would
>    expect your shell to give a little bit more info in the error message in
>    this case, but it is possible that not all shells to this.  Try invoking
>    dunecontrol like this:
>
>      bash -x /usr/local/lib/dunecontrol [ARGS...]
>
>    This should print all commands the shell is trying to execute from the
>    script, and the last one printed befor the error should give some clues.
>    Note that doing this can lead to unrelated errors, since dunecontrl may
> try
>    to parse the output from subshells, which is now cluttered by the
> command
>    the subshell is trying to execute.
>
> Regards,
> Jö.
>
> > I guess I need some way to tell aclocal where pkg.m4 can be found?
> >
> > I’ve attached the generated configure file.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Matt
> >
>
>
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