Solved - finally (after 4-5 different mirrors) found a tarball that
didn't give the report configure error.
Strange...
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For what its worth, I get the same error even if I do a naked 'config'
(no lapack, no blas, no reference to ACML).
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> config.status: error: cannot find input file: doc/manual/Makefile.in
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So, I think its a tarball issue.
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Have been running 2.5.1 on my multi-pro Opteron box running Fedora Core
5 with no problems. Had compiled previously with no problems. However,
for a variety of reasons (mostly due to ACML upgrade), I tried a
recompile using the following sequence of commands (note I'm compiling
in ACML support