weird libtool dependency in *.la file
 

Hi,

This is on RedHat Enterprise 5 with a Centos OpenFoam 1.7.1.

I was having some problems compiling field patches, and thought that maybe my installation is not quite right. I decided to try and install OF from scratch.

That first required installing gcc, gmp, mpfr, and mpc. The problem is related to building mpfr and mpc:

During the make part of the build, I was getting an error related to /nini/OpenFOAM/THirdParty-1.7.0/platforms/linux64/gmp-5.0.1.lib/libgmp.la.

Looking into the local libmpc.la file, I found an entry related to nini/OpenFOAM/... Deleting this entry allowed make to complete.

In the several *.la files I looked, I found similar entries for 1.7.0 and 1.7.1

I checked my environment variables, and I don't see any traces of OpenFoam there. How else would libtool know about /nini/.../OpenFoam...?

Is it possible that the CentosFOAM installation modified something somewhere (since it is done as root)? What?

In the end, I was able to make and check mpc and mpfr by modifying the *.la files. But still, I would like to know what is causing that problem.

Thanks,

Mirko

Just to report that the problem went away when I moved the OpenFOAM directories from that user's account.

I looked into the CentosFOAM installation script and nothing sinister jumped out.

Mirko