Re: [Autoconf] help configure project for HPC - non-standard ways to run the executable

[Anton Shterenlikht]

> From address@hidden Thu Sep 21 01:39:51 2017
>
> What kind of the automation you want to realize by autotool?

At present I have a collection of Makefiles,
one for each platform (HPC system, compiler, libraries, etc.).
This works ok, but sometimes the users
are not sure which libraries are available
or which they should use, i.e. they are not
sure which Makefile to use.
I was wondering if I can automate this choice
with autotools.

You mention cross-compiling.
However, my examples with mpif90 and mpirun,
or caf and cafrun, are native, not cross-compiling.
The executables are run on the same platform,
it's just the invocation of the
executable is not simply ./a.out,
but "mpirun -np <numproc> ./a.out", or
"cafrun -np <numproc> ./a.out".

Anyway, it sounds that autotools will give me more
headache than help.

Thanks!

Anton