Installation of DAGMC dependencies fails

[williamjsmith15]

Hi, when trying to install DAGMC to use with OpenMC, the MOAB install fails with error:
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'
when running the command:
../src/configure --enable-optimize
--enable-shared
--disable-debug
--with-hdf5=/dagmc_bld/HDF5
--prefix=/dagmc_bld/MOAB
I cannot find any fixes that already mention this and I have tried installing both from source and package manager
following the guide here: https://svalinn.github.io/DAGMC/install/dependencies.html but with no luck either way. The install up to this point went fine with no issues.

Any help would be appreciated
Many Thanks
Will

[makeclean]

Hi @williamjsmith15 did you run autoreconf -fi before running configure?

[pshriwise]

Ah, yeah I was on the wrong track here. A MOAB developer indicated that this is a bug in older versions of MOAB. It seems that file was left out of the repo accidentally...

I've tested 5.3.0 and 5.4.0 (as you saw) and they no longer contain this issue. Would updating your MOAB version be an option? It's probably the easiest fix...

[williamjsmith15]

I can try updating the version, I am using it with Cubit and DAGMC to prepare CAD geometries for OpenMC simulations, I am assuming you don't know any issues with compatibility here, the only reason I was running that version being that the installation instructions on the DAGMC website said to do so.

[williamjsmith15]

That seems to have worked now, I will let you know if I run into any more issues

[pshriwise]

Great! Once you report back that you can build DAGMC successfully with this update, I'll go ahead and close this issue.

[williamjsmith15]

All good, DAGMC has built successfully, thanks for the assistance

[pshriwise]

Solved by updating MOAB version.