I am trying to build open-mpi 1.4.4 (latest stable from open-mpi.org) using PGI compilers on a cray platform. PGI compilers' version is 11.9.0. I get the following error while building: ------------------------------------- Making all in tools/wrappers make[2]: Entering directory `{my_installation_directory}/opal/tools/wrappers' source='opal_wrapper.c' object='opal_wrapper.o' libtool=no \ DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/sh ../../../config/depcomp \ cc "-DEXEEXT=\"\"" -I. -I../../../opal/include -I../../../orte/include -I../../../ompi/include -I../../../opal/mca/paffinity/linux/plpa/src/libplpa -I../../.. -D_REENTRANT -O -DNDEBUG -fPIC -c -o opal_wrapper.o opal_wrapper.c /bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link cc -O -DNDEBUG -fPIC -export-dynamic -o opal_wrapper opal_wrapper.o ../../../opal/libopen-pal.la -lnsl -lutil libtool: link: cc -O -DNDEBUG -fPIC -o .libs/opal_wrapper opal_wrapper.o --export-dynamic ../../../opal/.libs/libopen-pal.so -ldl -lnsl -lutil -rpath {my_installation_directory}/lib pgcc-Error-Unknown switch: --export-dynamic make[2]: *** [opal_wrapper] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `{my_installation_directory}/opal/tools/wrappers' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `{my_installation_directory}/opal' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 -------------------------------------
I see that the libtool packaged with open-mpi is 2.2.6b When I try to compile this particular part with libtool versions 2.2.6 or 2.4, I get the following error: ------------------------------------- $ libtool --tag=CC --mode=link cc -O -DNDEBUG -fPIC -export-dynamic -o opal_wrapper opal_wrapper.o ../../../opal/libopen-pal.la -lnsl -lutil libtool: link: cc -O -DNDEBUG -fPIC -o .libs/opal_wrapper opal_wrapper.o -Wl,--export-dynamic ../../../opal/.libs/libopen-pal.so -ldl -lnsl -lutil -Wl,-rpath -Wl,{my_installation_directory}/lib /usr/bin/ld: attempted static link of dynamic object `../../../opal/.libs/libopen-pal.so' ------------------------------------- Looking at earlier posts, apparently there was a bug with libtool a couple of years ago because of which the above error occurred. This was fixed in newer releases, but I am getting similar errors. Does anyone have any information on how to fix this, or if I am doing something wrong here? Thanks!