# Compiling openpbs v22.05.11 on RHEL6.4 **URL:** \ **Category:** Users/Site Administrators\ **Created:** [September 16, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/compiling-openpbs-v22-05-11-on-rhel6-4/3283 "2022-09-16T18:26:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blacksburgturkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@blacksburgturkey](https://community.openpbs.org/u/blacksburgturkey)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/compiling-openpbs-v22-05-11-on-rhel6-4/3283/1 "2022-09-16T18:26:20Z")
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=[Red Hat Bugzilla Main Page](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 ---
**Author:** ![mikescchen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.openpbs.org/mikescchen/32/192_2.png) [@mikescchen](https://community.openpbs.org/u/mikescchen)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 10:01am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/compiling-openpbs-v22-05-11-on-rhel6-4/3283/2 "2022-09-26T10:01:56Z")
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.