How good are you with reading/editing Makefiles? I find problems like this are usually solved by searching the Makefiles for the offending line(s) and removing the offending switch.
In a well-designed make environment, you should only have to edit the top-level Makefile. In the worst case, you'll have to edit every Makefile. Fortunately, you can usually speed this up with some shell kung-fu, if necessary. This of course doesn't work if the developers were "clever" enough to have a build environment that overwrite the Makefiles with new ones every time to try to build. I don't think this applies to Open MPI. Prentice Axel Schweiger wrote: > Trying to build a hybrid OpenMPI with PGI fortran and gcc to support > WRF model > The problem appears to be due to a -pthread switch passed to pgfortran. > > > > libtool: link: pgfortran -shared -fpic -Mnomain .libs/mpi.o > .libs/mpi_sizeof.o .libs/mpi_comm_spawn_multiple_f90.o > .libs/mpi_testall_f90.o .libs/mpi_testsome_f90.o .libs/mpi_waitall_f90.o > .libs/mpi_waitsome_f90.o .libs/mpi_wtick_f90.o .libs/mpi_wtime_f90.o > -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/axel/AxboxInstall/openmpi-1.4.2/ompi/.libs > -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/axel/AxboxInstall/openmpi-1.4.2/orte/.libs > -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/axel/AxboxInstall/openmpi-1.4.2/opal/.libs > -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/opt/openmpi-pgi-gcc-1.42/lib > -L/home/axel/AxboxInstall/openmpi-1.4.2/orte/.libs > -L/home/axel/AxboxInstall/openmpi-1.4.2/opal/.libs > ../../../ompi/.libs/libmpi.so > /home/axel/AxboxInstall/openmpi-1.4.2/orte/.libs/libopen-rte.so > /home/axel/AxboxInstall/openmpi-1.4.2/opal/.libs/libopen-pal.so -ldl > -lnsl -lutil -lm -pthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,libmpi_f90.so.0 -o > .libs/libmpi_f90.so.0.0.0 > pgfortran-Error-Unknown switch: -pthread > make[4]: *** [libmpi_f90.la] Error 1 > > > There has been discussion on this issue and the below solution > suggested. This doesn't appear to work for the 10.8 > release. > > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2009/04/8911.php > > There was a previous thread: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2009/03/8687.php > > suggesting other solutions. > > Wondering if there is a better solution right now? Building 1.4.2 > > Thanks > Axel
