Compiling openpbs v22.05.11 on RHEL6.4

I’m in need of creating RHEL6.4 rpm’s for openpbs-execution and openpbs-client. To that end, I’ve attempted to provide all build prereqs. The challenge appears to be providing this build sequence visibility to the altinstall of python v3.6.8. Is there some environment variable, or variables I’ll need to ensure that configure can see my manual python install libraries. Using --with-python=/usr/local/bin/, which is where my manual python3 is installed, did not help. I get the same error below with and without that switch added.

I was able to manually install python v3.6.8 using the following sequence:
VERSION=“3.6.8”
tar -xzf Python-“$VERSION”.tgz
cd Python-“$VERSION”
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared LDFLAGS=“-Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib”
echo “/usr/local/lib” > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/custom-python.conf
make && make altinstall
ln -sfn /usr/local/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3.6
ln -sfn /usr/local/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3

To ensure the manual install included the python3-devel files, I used the “–enable-shared” switch.

For the openpbs steps, I did the following:
OPENPBSVER=22.05.11
tar -xpf openpbs-“$OPENPBSVER”.tar.gz
cd openpbs-“$OPENPBSVER”
yum-builddep -y openpbs.spec [step reports that python3-devel is missing due to my manual install]
rpmdev-setuptree
./autogen.sh
./configure PBS_VERSION=“$OPENPBSVER” --prefix=/opt/pbs | tee configure_“$OPENPBSVER”.txt
Failing outputs last few lines

checking whether ppoll API is supported… no
checking for PBS home directory… /var/spool/pbs
checking for PBS server name file… /var/spool/pbs/server_name
./configure: line 25209: syntax error near unexpected token newline' ./configure: line 25209: yes:no:’
checking for PBS database directory… make: *** No rule to make target `dist’. Stop.

Steps that my install script fails to reach:
make dist | tee makedist_“$OPENPBSVER”.txt
mv openpbs-“$OPENPBSVER”.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
cp ./openpbs.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
rpmbuild -ba openpbs.spec

Contents of first few last few lines of config.log below:
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by OpenPBS configure 20.0.0, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.63. Invocation command line was

$ ./configure PBS_VERSION=22.05.11 --prefix=/opt/pbs

---------

Platform.

---------

hostname = auslynchpcd06
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Tue Jan 29 11:47:41 EST 2013

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch = x86_64
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown

PATH: /usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /root/bin

-----------

Core tests.

-----------

configure:2290: checking build system type
configure:2308: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:2330: checking host system type
configure:2345: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:2367: checking target system type
configure:2382: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:2432: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2500: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2511: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2571: result: yes
configure:2712: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2751: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:2764: checking for gawk
configure:2780: found /bin/gawk
configure:2791: result: gawk
configure:2802: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2824: result: yes
configure:2918: checking for style of include used by make
configure:2946: result: GNU
configure:3016: checking for gcc
configure:3032: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:3043: result: gcc
configure:3275: checking for C compiler version
configure:3283: gcc --version >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:3287: $? = 0
configure:3294: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: …/configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3) (GCC)
configure:3298: $? = 0
configure:3305: gcc -V >&5
gcc: ‘-V’ option must have argument
configure:3309: $? = 1
configure:3332: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3354: gcc conftest.c >&5
configure:3358: $? = 0
configure:3396: result: a.out
configure:3415: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3425: ./a.out
configure:3429: $? = 0
configure:3448: result: yes
configure:3455: checking whether we are cross compiling
configure:3457: result: no
configure:3460: checking for suffix of executables
configure:3467: gcc -o conftest conftest.c >&5
configure:3471: $? = 0
configure:3497: result:

Last few lines…
#define HAVE_UNAME 1
#define HAVE_UTIME 1
#define H_ERRNO_DECLARED //
#define pbs_socklen_t socklen_t
#define PBS_HAVE_EPOLL /
/
#define PBS_HAVE_EPOLL_PWAIT /**/
#define PBS_SERVER_HOME “/var/spool/pbs”
#define PBS_DEFAULT_FILE “/var/spool/pbs/server_name”

configure: exit 2

I didn’t go through the messages, but I do remember that the RHEL6 built-in PostgreSQL is too old for OpenPBS v19, let alone v22 you’re using.
I did build a newer copy of PostgreSQL (from source) on that RHEL6 machine and then build OpenPBS v19 on it. But the machine was upgraded to RHEL7 soon after, so I did not gain much experience on that combination.