[mpich-discuss] Building MPICH-3.0.4 to create libmpich.so

[Ken Raffenetti]

John,

Configuring with --enable-shared or --enable-shared=yes should have worked for this. Can you send your config.log so we can inspect and see what went wrong?

Ken

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> From: "John S. Rivas M." <jsrivas at gmail.com>
> To: discuss at mpich.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:12:24 PM
> Subject: [mpich-discuss] Building MPICH-3.0.4 to create libmpich.so
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> Greetings to all,
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> I have successfully built mpich-3.0.4 to work with some applications
> that require parallel support. But, I face a problem that I haven't
> been able to solve:
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> I need to setup boost libraries (from boost.org ) in my system and an
> error has popped up. The error indicates that, during the attempt to
> setup boost, the library libmpich.a cannot be used when making
> shared objects. It is my understanding that I should use a library
> called libmpich.so (or something similar, that allows the creation
> of shared objects), however such library is not created when I build
> mpich-3.0.4 .
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> Can anybody indicate to me whether I don't get the libmpich.so (or
> similar) because I'm missing something during the building of
> mpich-3.0.4 or because it's simply not created and I need to find
> another flavor of mpi for this? I appreciate any inputs.
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> Some extra info:
> - system: Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit)
> - compilers used: GNU, including gcc, g++, cc, c++, cpp, f95, and
> gfortran
> - libraries built in /usr/local/lib/: libmpich.a, libmpich.la ,
> libmpichcxx.a, libmpichcxx.la , libmpichf90.a, libmpichf90.la
> - attempts to run ./configure script with options: <none> and
> --enable-shared=yes. Both produce the same libraries mentioned above
> and not the desired libmpich.so (or similar)
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> Thanks a lot and best regards.
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> JSR
> "Montani Semper Liberi"
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