Problem 698

Summary:	Message "errors were encountered during installation" when there are none
Product:	Geant4	Reporter:	w.stiller
Component:	config	Assignee:	Serguei.Sadilov
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Version:	6.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description w.stiller 2004-12-03 01:49:13 CET

When installing G4 I got the message that errors were probably encountered
during the installation and that the log-file should be checked. Doing so
reveals no errors at all, three warning messages and some "skipping"-messages
from the linker (compare to bug report no. 697) are the only "unusual" events
encountered. Do the warnings or the "skipping incompatible libraries"-messages
cause the installation error message?

When rerunning "Configure -install" no new libraries are built, nothing new is
compiled or compiled/linked again but the message changes to the "successfully
installed"-message. Is this a bug or is that quite normal?

Wolfram Stiller

Comment 1 Gabriele Cosmo 2004-12-03 03:40:59 CET

This is a known limitation of the parsing-stage for errors in the
Configure script, which may resolve as errors some warnings that may
show up.
Assigned to the Configure script developer.

Comment 2 Serguei.Sadilov 2005-01-31 02:34:59 CET

It's normal and it's indeed a limitation. The script don't
check format of all messages (which are different on most of the
platforms) but checks the existance of some additional
messages. The second time you did not get warnings during
compilation (because it was compiled by first pass) so
there was no any additional messages.

But probably in future we will introduce more clever "error/warnings"
parsing depending on platform.