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From: Paul Cochrane (paultcochrane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-14 10:50:12


On 14/09/2007, Bart Wang <boonwang_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I suspect this is a really simple answer to my question. I'm a linux newbie
> and I'm unable to build Lam/MPI on my ubuntu machine. When I cd to the
> unpacked lam directory (contents listed below), I execute 'make' as
> instruction by the installation document. Then I get the following error:
>
> :~/Desktop/lam-7.1.4$ make
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
>
> Any suggestions? It looks like I'm using the GNU make version.
>
> Thanks,
> BW
>
> ~/Desktop/lam-7.1.4$ ls -a
> .
> aclocal.m4
> config.log
> doc
> HISTORY
> Makefile.am
> otb
> share
> ..
> AUTHORS
> configure
> etc
> INSTALL
> Makefile.in
> README tools
> acinclude.m4
> config
> configure.in
> examples
> LICENSE
> man
> romio
> VERSION
>

You usually need to run ./configure first. This should configure your
system so that a Makefile is produced and which can then be processed
with make.

So, have a go at:

./configure
make
sudo make install

This will (usually) install lam under /usr/local on your system.

Hope that helps!

Paul