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Am 03.04.2017 um 22:01 schrieb Prentice Bisbal:

> Nevermind. A coworker helped me figure this one out. Echo is treating the 
> '-E' as an argument to echo and interpreting it instead of passing it to sed. 
> Since that's used by the configure tests, that's a bit of a problem, Just 
> adding another -E before $@, should fix the problem.

It's often suggested to use printf instead of the non-portable echo.

- -- Reuti


> 
> Prentice
> 
> On 04/03/2017 03:54 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>> I've decided to work around this problem by creating a wrapper script for 
>> pgcc that strips away the -pthread argument, but my sed expression works on 
>> the command-line, but not in the script. I'm essentially reproducing the 
>> workaround from 
>> https://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2009/04/8724.php.
>> 
>> Can anyone see what's wrong with my implementation the workaround? It's a 
>> very simple sed expression. Here's my script:
>> 
>> #!/bin/bash
>> 
>> realcmd=/path/to/pgcc
>> echo "original args: $@"
>> newargs=$(echo "$@" | sed s/-pthread//)
>> echo "new args: $newargs"
>> #$realcmd $newargs
>> exit
>> 
>> And here's what happens when I run it:
>> 
>> /path/to/pgcc -E conftest.c
>> original args: -E conftest.c
>> new args: conftest.c
>> 
>> As you can see, the -E argument is getting lost in translation. If I add 
>> more arguments, it works fine:
>> 
>> /path/to/pgcc -A -B -C -D -E conftest.c
>> original args: -A -B -C -D -E conftest.c
>> new args: -A -B -C -D -E conftest.c
>> 
>> It only seems to be a problem when -E is the first argument:
>> 
>> $ /path/to/pgcc -E -D -C -B -A conftest.c
>> original args: -E -D -C -B -A conftest.c
>> new args: -D -C -B -A conftest.c
>> 
>> Prentice
>> 
>> On 04/03/2017 02:24 PM, Aaron Knister wrote:
>>> To be thorough couldn't one replace -pthread in the slurm .la files with 
>>> -lpthread? I ran into this last week and this was the solution I was 
>>> thinking about implementing. Having said that, I can't think of a situation 
>>> in which the -pthread/-lpthread argument would be required other than 
>>> linking against statically compiled SLURM libraries and even then I'm not 
>>> so sure about that.
>>> 
>>> -Aaron
>>> 
>>> On 4/3/17 1:46 PM, Åke Sandgren wrote:
>>>> We build slurm with GCC, drop the -pthread arg in the .la files, and
>>>> have never seen any problems related to that. And we do build quite a
>>>> lot of code. And lots of versions of OpenMPI with multiple different
>>>> compilers (and versions).
>>>> 
>>>> On 04/03/2017 04:51 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>>>>> This is the second suggestion to rebuild Slurm
>>>>> 
>>>>> The  other from Åke Sandgren, who recommended this:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> This usually comes from slurm, so we always do
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> perl -pi -e 's/-pthread//' /lap/slurm/${version}/lib/libpmi.la
>>>>>> /lap/slurm/${version}/lib/libslurm.la
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> when installing a new slurm version. Thus no need for a fakepg wrapper.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't really have the luxury to rebuild Slurm at the moment. How would
>>>>> I rebuild Slurm to change this behavior? Is rebuilding Slurm with PGI
>>>>> the only option to fix this in slurm, or use Åke's suggestion above?
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I did use Åke's suggestion above, how would that affect the operation
>>>>> of Slurm, or future builds of OpenMPI and any other software that might
>>>>> rely on Slurm, particulary with regards to building those apps with
>>>>> non-PGI compilers?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Prentice
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 04/03/2017 10:31 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The -pthread flag is likely pulled by libtool from the slurm libmpi.la
>>>>>> <http://libmpi.la> and/or libslurm.la <http://libslurm.la>
>>>>>> Workarounds are
>>>>>> - rebuild slurm with PGI
>>>>>> - remove the .la files (*.so and/or *.a are enough)
>>>>>> - wrap the PGI compiler to ignore the -pthread option
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hope this helps
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Gilles
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Monday, April 3, 2017, Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov
>>>>>> <mailto:pbis...@pppl.gov>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    Greeting Open MPI users! After being off this list for several
>>>>>>    years, I'm back! And I need help:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    I'm trying to compile OpenMPI 1.10.3 with the PGI compilers,
>>>>>>    version 17.3. I'm using the following configure options:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    ./configure \
>>>>>>      --prefix=/usr/pppl/pgi/17.3-pkgs/openmpi-1.10.3 \
>>>>>>      --disable-silent-rules \
>>>>>>      --enable-shared \
>>>>>>      --enable-static \
>>>>>>      --enable-mpi-thread-multiple \
>>>>>>      --with-pmi=/usr/pppl/slurm/15.08.8 \
>>>>>>      --with-hwloc \
>>>>>>      --with-verbs \
>>>>>>      --with-slurm \
>>>>>>      --with-psm \
>>>>>>      CC=pgcc \
>>>>>>      CFLAGS="-tp x64 -fast" \
>>>>>>      CXX=pgc++ \
>>>>>>      CXXFLAGS="-tp x64 -fast" \
>>>>>>      FC=pgfortran \
>>>>>>      FCFLAGS="-tp x64 -fast" \
>>>>>>      2>&1 | tee configure.log
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    Which leads to this error  from libtool during make:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    pgcc-Error-Unknown switch: -pthread
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    I've searched the archives, which ultimately lead to this work
>>>>>>    around from 2009:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2009/04/8724.php
>>>>>> <https://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2009/04/8724.php>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    Interestingly, I participated in the discussion that lead to that
>>>>>>    workaround, stating that I had no problem compiling Open MPI with
>>>>>>    PGI v9. I'm assuming the problem now is that I'm specifying
>>>>>>    --enable-mpi-thread-multiple, which I'm doing because a user
>>>>>>    requested that feature.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    It's been exactly 8 years and 2 days since that workaround was
>>>>>>    posted to the list. Please tell me a better way of dealing with
>>>>>>    this issue than writing a 'fakepgf90' script. Any suggestions?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    --
>>>>>>    Prentice
>>>>>> 
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