Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: "Thomas E. Koch" <koch@mortar.fit.qut.edu.au>
Subject: Re: MPICH Linux installation problem...
Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 14:17:22 +1000
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On Thu, 27 Jul 1995, GOPAL Ganapathiraju Sree Ramana wrote:

> the installation documentation vaguely referred to this
> problem as a bug in BASH shell, and advised use of ash.
> 
> i tried with ash zsh bash but to no avail. still c program
> could not be compiled by the configure. (i could compile
> outside though)
> 

I've installed MPI on LINUX with the bash Shell and without F77, but I 
had to change the "configure" file in the following way:

change the line          trap 'rm -f confdefs*' 0
to                       trap 'rm -f confdefs*' 1

and remove 'confdefs.h' by hand after you have run configure.

cheers thomas
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