We're trying to upgrade to 15.08.5 on RHEL6 (our previous attempt to upgrade to 15.08.4 failed, see http://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237). It appears the changes introduced in 15.08.5 have broken support for lua. I've tracked this down to errors in "configure". The test for x_ac_lua_pkg_name looks flawed, see: https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/slurm-15.08/configure#L23385-L23403 I've no prior experience with pkg_config but I don't think it's valid to check for "lua5.2" (should be something like "lua >= 5.2"?). So, x_ac_lua_pkg_name is left set as "lua". At 15.08.04 this was fine but the changes introduced at 15.08.5 mean we get the following error when we try to start the controller: error: xlua_dlopen: Not compiled with lua support! Please install a lua dev package. which comes from here: https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/slurm-15.08/src/common/xlua.c#L58 Note that modifying configure so that x_ac_lua_pkg_name gets set to "lua5.1" causes my build to fail (I haven't had time to investigate this). So, my temporary workaround is as follows: --- slurm-15.08.5.orig/configure 2015-12-10 23:55:01.000000000 +0000 +++ slurm-15.08.5/configure 2015-12-11 16:01:14.555747000 +0000 @@ -23531,7 +23531,7 @@ fi $as_echo "#define HAVE_LUA_5_2 1" >>confdefs.h - elif test "x$x_ac_lua_pkg_name" = "xlua5.1"; then + elif test "x$x_ac_lua_pkg_name" = "xlua"; then $as_echo "#define HAVE_LUA_5_1 1" >>confdefs.h Everything seems to be OK with this patched version. As an aside, note that the 15.08.5 tarball appears to contain various temporary files, e.g. META~ NEWS~ x x~
We're looking into a better solution for this. I'm marking this a duplicate as we're already tracking this exact issue on 2243. *** This ticket has been marked as a duplicate of ticket 2243 ***
