[LU-7700] autoreconf does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Labels: patch
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Christopher Morrone
• Reporter: Christopher Morrone

Description

Lets say you have a clean checkout of Lustre's master branch, and you do the following:

$ sh autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ <edit lustre/autoconf/lustre-version.ac and increment the LUSTRE_PATCH number>
$ make
 cd . && /bin/sh /home/morrone/src/lustre/config/missing automake-1.13 --foreign
autoMakefile.am:122: error: SERVER does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
make: *** [autoMakefile.in] Error 1

One way or another, the autotools are smart enough to recognize that the configure script needs to be regenerated. However, we are currently hitting the above bug.

AM_CONDITIONAL calls all must be made unconditionally. My guess, without looking at the code, is that SERVER is defined from an AM_CONDITIONAL that is burried under conditional calls, and that is triggeing the about error.

NOTE: My first guess was wrong, read the comments below for more details.

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-3953 lustre build system improvments