I regularly build on Mavericks and run without problem, though I haven't tried a parallel IO app. I'll give yours a try later, when I get back to my Mac.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Ronald Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov> wrote: > I have been struggling trying to get a usable build of openmpi on Mac OSX > Mavericks (10.9.1). I can get openmpi to configure and build without > error, but have problems after that which depend on the openmpi version. > > With 1.6.5, make check fails the opal_datatype_test, ddt_test, and ddt_raw > tests. The various atomic_* tests pass. See checklogs_1.6.5, attached > as a .gz file. > > Following suggestions from openmpi discussions I tried openmpi version > 1.7.4rc1. In this case make check indicates all tests passed. But when I > proceeded to try to build a parallel code (parallel HDF5) it failed. > Following an email exchange with the HDF5 support people, they suggested I > try to compile and run the attached bit of simple code Sample_mpio.c (which > they supplied) which does not use any HDF5, but just attempts a parallel > write to a file and parallel read. That test failed when requesting more > than 1 processor -- which they say indicates a failure of the openmpi > installation. The error message was: > > MPI_INIT: argc 1 > MPI_INIT: argc 1 > Testing simple C MPIO program with 2 processes accessing file > ./mpitest.data > (Filename can be specified via program argument) > Proc 0: hostname=Ron-Cohen-MBP.local > Proc 1: hostname=Ron-Cohen-MBP.local > MPI_BARRIER[0]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD > MPI_BARRIER[1]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD > Proc 0: MPI_File_open with MPI_MODE_EXCL failed (MPI_ERR_FILE: invalid > file) > MPI_ABORT[0]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD errorcode 1 > MPI_BCAST[1]: buffer 7fff5a483048 count 1 datatype MPI_INT root 0 comm > MPI_COMM_WORLD > > I then went back to my openmpi directories and tried running some of the > individual tests in the test and examples directories. In particular in > test/class I found one test that seem to not be run as part of make check > which failed, even with one processor; this is opal_bitmap. Not sure if > this is because 1.7.4rc1 is incomplete, or there is something wrong with > the installation, or maybe a 32 vs 64 bit thing? The error message is > > mpirun detected that one or more processes exited with non-zero status, > thus causing the job to be terminated. The first process to do so was: > > Process name: [[48805,1],0] > Exit code: 255 > > Any suggestions? > > More generally has anyone out there gotten an openmpi build on Mavericks > to work with sufficient success that they can get the attached > Sample_mpio.c (or better yet, parallel HDF5) to build? > > Details: Running Mac OS X 10.9.1 on a mid-2009 Macbook pro with 4 GB > memory; tried openmpi 1.6.5 and 1.7.4rc1. Built openmpi against the stock > gcc that comes with XCode 5.0.2, and gfortran 4.9.0. > > Files attached: config.log.gz, openmpialllog.gz (output of running > ompi_info --all), checklog2.gz (output of make.check in top openmpi > directory). > > I am not attaching logs of make and install since those seem to have been > successful, but can generate those if that would be helpful. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
