On May 1, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Rob wrote:
A few emails back I reported that I could build openmpi on Alpha system (except the static libraries). However, it seems that the built result is unusable. With every simple program (even non-mpi) I compile, I get:$ mpicc myprog.c --showme:version mpicc: Open MPI 1.2.1 (Language: C) $ mpicc myprog.c gcc: dummy: No such file or directory gcc: ranlib: No such file or directory $ mpicc myprog.c --showme /opt/gcc/bin/gcc -I/opt/openmpi/include/openmpi -I/opt/openmpi/include -pthread -mfp-trap-mode=su myprog.c -L/opt/openmpi/lib -lmpi -lopen-rte -lopen-pal -ldl dummy ranlib (Note: the "-mfp-trap-mode=su" prevents a runtime SIGSEGV crash with GNU compiler on Alpha system) $ mpicc myprog.c --showme:link -pthread -mfp-trap-mode=su myprog.c -L/opt/openmpi/lib -lmpi -lopen-rte -lopen-pal -ldl dummy ranlib What is the "dummy" and "ranlib" doing here?
This specific problem may be due to a bug that Brian just found/fixed in the configure script last night (due to a bug report from Paul Van Allsburg). Could you try any nightly trunk tarball after r14600 (the fix hasn't made its way over to the 1.2 release branch yet; I assume it will soon)?
I'm now trying the nightly build from SVN (version 1.3a1r14551), but I'm afraid that Alpha support is still not there.....if that's the case, is there any chance to fix openmpi for Alpha?
So I think you're having 2 issues (right?): 1. The opal missing symbol when you compile dynamically 2. The dummy/ranlib arguments in mpicc and friends #2 may be fixed; #1 will require a closer look (per my previous mail).
My OS is CentOS 4.4 (the equivalent of RedHat Enterprise Edition 4). Hence, my packages are not so up-to-date versions: autoconf-2.59-5 automake15-1.5-13 automake-1.9.2-3 automake14-1.4p6-12 automake17-1.7.9-5 automake16-1.6.3-5 libtool-1.5.6-4.EL4.1.c4.2 libtool-libs-1.5.6-4.EL4.1.c4.2 flex-2.5.4a-33 (what else is essential to build OpenMpi?)
Building from SVN will require more recent versions of these tools (libtool in particular) -- see: http://www.open-mpi.org/svn/ building.php. The HACKING file has good instructions on how to get recent versions of the tools without hosing your system: http:// svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk/HACKING.
-- Jeff Squyres Cisco Systems
