Top level build problems

Description of problem

Attempting a top-level build of LALSuite at CIT, I find 2 main problems:

1. In order to get the top-level build to work, I find that I am essentially required to have defined non-empty LALINFERENCE_DATA_PATH, LALINFERENCE_OCTAVE_PATH, and LALINFERENCE_PYTHON_PATH environment variables, even though I am disabling LALInference when configuring the build.
2. Pulsar ephemeris files are corrupted, and not the correct size

Maybe @karl-wette or @david-keitel have some ideas for a solution?

Expected behavior

I did not expect to have to define LALINFERENCE* environment variables and I expected the files to not be corrupted

Steps to reproduce

Fresh git clone of LALSuite. Then:

export LAL_PREFIX="/home/evan.goetz/opt/lscsoft-testing"
export CFLAGS="-g -O0 -mavx2"
cd ~/lscrepos/lalsuite-eg
./00boot
./configure --prefix=${LAL_PREFIX} --enable-python --enable-lalframe --disable-lalmetaio --disable-lalsimulation --disable-lalburst --disable-lalinspiral --disable-lalinference --disable-swig --without-hdf5 --disable-cfitsio --enable-framel

I think configure will fail here. Instead, if I run

LALINFERENCE_DATA_PATH=${LAL_PREFIX}/share LALINFERENCE_OCTAVE_PATH=${LAL_PREFIX}/share LALINFERENCE_PYTHON_PATH=${LAL_PREFIX}/share ./configure --prefix=${LAL_PREFIX} --enable-python --enable-lalframe --disable-lalmetaio --disable-lalsimulation --disable-lalburst --disable-lalinspiral --disable-lalinference --disable-swig --without-hdf5 --disable-cfitsio --enable-framel

works.

However, in any case, the files in ${LAL_PREFIX}/share/lalpulsar are corrupted.

Context/environment

Dependency information

CC: gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44)
automake (GNU automake) 1.13.4
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
FFTW version 3.3.10.
GSL 1.15
HDF5 Version: 1.8.12
pkg-config: 0.27.1
SWIG Version 3.0.12

Conda info

$ conda info

Conda list

$ conda list

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