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

[John S. Rivas M.]

Thanks for your answer Ken,

After your confirmation that *--enable-shared=yes* should has worked, I
decided to backtrack and start again from scratch. Fortunately, I got it
working properly.

Thanks a lot for your help.



On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Ken Raffenetti <raffenet at mcs.anl.gov>wrote:

> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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:
> >
> > 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 .
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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)
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot and best regards.
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> > --
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> > JSR
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