[mpich-discuss] #error "unknown size for unsigned int."

[Pavan Balaji]

The error seems to be coming from hwloc.  Can you try building hwloc
directly?

 -- Pavan

On 11/22/2012 09:19 AM US Central Time, Jed Brown wrote:
> I'm trying to install mpich-3.0rc1 on an ancient (RHEL4) machine and get
> this error.
> 
> Making all in tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc'
> Making all in src
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/src'
> /bin/sh ../../../../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../../../include
> -I../../../../../tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include/private/autogen
> -I../../../../../tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include/hwloc/autogen
>  -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include
> -DHWLOC_INSIDE_LIBHWLOC
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include
>  -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/mpl/include
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/mpl/include
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/openpa/src
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/openpa/src
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/mpi/romio/include -fvisibility=hidden
>  -I/usr/include/libxml2   -fvisibility=hidden  -I/usr/include/libxml2  
>    -O2  -MT traversal.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/traversal.Tpo -c -o
> traversal.lo traversal.c
> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../../../include
> -I../../../../../tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include/private/autogen
> -I../../../../../tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include/hwloc/autogen
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include
> -DHWLOC_INSIDE_LIBHWLOC
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/mpl/include
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/mpl/include
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/openpa/src
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/openpa/src
> -I/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/mpi/romio/include -fvisibility=hidden
> -I/usr/include/libxml2 -fvisibility=hidden -I/usr/include/libxml2 -O2
> -MT traversal.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/traversal.Tpo -c traversal.c  -fPIC
> -DPIC -o .libs/traversal.o
> In file included from traversal.c:12:
> /work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/include/private/misc.h:41:2:
> error: #error "unknown size for unsigned int."
> make[4]: *** [traversal.lo] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc/src'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra/tools/topo/hwloc/hwloc'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1/src/pm/hydra'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/work/parmod/mpich-3.0rc1'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> It wasn't obvious to me from the logs why this was being tripped.
> Configure log attached.
> 
> 
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-- 
Pavan Balaji
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