"../configure --with-lustre" causes build to fail with "yes/lib" error

[timattox]

What version of Open MPI are you using? (e.g., v1.10.3, v2.1.0, git branch name and hash, etc.)

v2.1.0

Describe how Open MPI was installed (e.g., from a source/distribution tarball, from a git clone, from an operating system distribution package, etc.)

from a release tarball: openmpi-2.1.0.tar.bz2

Please describe the system on which you are running

• Operating system/version:
  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

• Computer hardware:
  SGI ICE X

• Network type:
  infiniband

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Details of the problem

When configuring open MPI to have lustre support, if I use just "--with-lustre" the build
eventually fails with

make[2]: Entering directory `/p/home/tmattox/TIM/src/openmpi-2.1.0/build/ompi/mca/fs/lustre'
  CCLD     libmca_fs_lustre.la
../../../../libtool: line 7489: cd: yes/lib: No such file or directory
libtool:   error: cannot determine absolute directory name of 'yes/lib'
make[2]: *** [libmca_fs_lustre.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/p/home/tmattox/TIM/src/openmpi-2.1.0/build/ompi/mca/fs/lustre'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/p/home/tmattox/TIM/src/openmpi-2.1.0/build/ompi'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

That is because the configure script used the value of "yes" as a path instead of /usr or
something else when it set the path for the lustre library variable: ompi_check_lustre_dir
See the "-Lyes/lib" near the end of the configure:244357 line extracted from the config.log:

configure:244302: result: yes
configure:244326: checking for library containing llapi_file_create
configure:244357: gcc -o conftest -O3 -DNDEBUG -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -I/app/unsupported/COST/papi/5.4.1/gnu//include -I/app/unsupported/COST/tcltk/8.6.4/gnu//include  -I/p/home/tmattox/TIM/src/openmpi-2.1.0/opal/mca/hwloc/hwloc1112/hwloc/include -I/p/home/tmattox/TIM/src/openmpi-2.1.0/build/opal/mca/hwloc/hwloc1112/hwloc/include -I/p/home/tmattox/TIM/src/openmpi-2.1.0/opal/mca/event/libevent2022/libevent -I/p/home/tmattox/TIM/src/openmpi-2.1.0/opal/mca/event/libevent2022/libevent/include -I/p/home/tmattox/TIM/src/openmpi-2.1.0/build/opal/mca/event/libevent2022/libevent/include -Iyes/include -L/app/unsupported/COST/papi/5.4.1/gnu//lib -L/app/unsupported/COST/git/2.4.4/gnu//lib -L/app/unsupported/COST/tcltk/8.6.4/gnu//lib  -Lyes/lib conftest.c -lrt -lm -lutil   >&5
/p/work2/tmattox/ccaOuL4w.o: In function `main':
conftest.c:(.text.startup+0x7): undefined reference to `llapi_file_create'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

If I instead use "../configure --with-lustre=/usr" everything works, but "/usr" appears to be the intended default. The output from "../configure --help" indicates that the DIR value is optional for --with-lustre.

The problem seems to be someplace around line 244199 of configure, but I stopped following the rabbit hole...

[jsquyres]

Also reported by Prentice Bisbal a few days ago: https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.open-mpi.org/msg30998.html