[mpich-discuss] Problems building mpich-3.2.1 with PGI 18.4 Community Edition

[Reuti]

> Am 20.07.2018 um 17:24 schrieb Jeff Layton <laytonjb at att.net>:
> 
> I fixed this problem and I get the exact same error. Again, I grepped config.log and found the following.
> 
> 
> $ grep -i error config.log
> pgcc-Error-Unknown switch: -qversion
> PGC/x86-64 Linux 18.4-0: compilation completed with severe errors
> PGC-S-0035-Syntax error: Recovery attempted by replacing identifier error by ';' (conftest.c: 14)
> PGC/x86-64 Linux 18.4-0: compilation completed with severe errors
> |                    Syntax error
> PGC-S-0035-Syntax error: Recovery attempted by replacing identifier error by ';' (conftest.c: 14)
> PGC/x86-64 Linux 18.4-0: compilation completed with severe errors
> |                    Syntax error
> configure:5951: error: in `/home/laytonjb/src/mpich-3.2.1':
> configure:5953: error: C preprocessor "/opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgcc" fails sanity check
> HAVE_ERROR_CHECKING=''
> MPI_MAX_ERROR_STRING=''

Please don't set CPP, this is the preprocessor and not the C compiler itself. The GNU cpp should be installed though.

NB: Usually it's sufficient to name the compilers without paths:

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/laytonjb/bin/pgi-18.4-mpich-3.2.1 CC=pgcc CXX=pgc++ FC=pgf90 F77=pgf77

-- Reuti


> I'm not an expert but it looks like configure sends an unknown option to pgcc (-qversion). Then there appear to be some problems in mpich when built with pgcc.
> 
> Any comments or thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
>> Dooh. Thanks - I'll try this and see what happens. 
>> 
>> Thanks! 
>> 
>> Jeff 
>> 
>>>> Am 19.07.2018 um 01:19 schrieb Jeff Layton <laytonjb at att.net>: 
>>>> 
>>>> Hello, 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm trying to build mpich-3.2.1 with the PGI 18.4 Community Edition compilers. However, I get an error when running configure. The configure line is, 
>>>> 
>>>> ./configure --prefix=/home/laytonjb/bin/pgi-18.4-mpich-3.2.1 
>>>> 
>>>> The error I get is, 
>>>> 
>>>> [laytonjb at laytonjb-Lenovo-G50-45 mpich-3.2.1]$ ./conf.jeff 
>>>> Configuring MPICH version 3.2.1 with  '--prefix=/home/laytonjb/bin/pgi-18.4-mpich-3.2.1' 'CC=/opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgcc' 'CPP=/opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgcc' 'CXX=/opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgg++' 'FC=/opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgfortran' 
>>> pgg++ seems to be typo, duno whether this is related. 
>>> 
>>> -- Reuti 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 'F77=/opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgf77' 
>>>> Running on system: Linux laytonjb-Lenovo-G50-45 3.10.0-693.17.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 25 20:13:58 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 
>>>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes 
>>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out 
>>>> checking for suffix of executables... 
>>>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no 
>>>> checking for suffix of object files... o 
>>>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no 
>>>> checking whether /opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgcc accepts -g... yes 
>>>> checking for /opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed 
>>>> checking whether /opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgcc understands -c and -o together... yes 
>>>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgcc 
>>>> configure: error: in `/home/laytonjb/src/mpich-3.2.1': 
>>>> configure: error: C preprocessor "/opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgcc" fails sanity check 
>>>> See `config.log' for more details 
>>>> 
>>>> I've briefly looked through the config.log and this is all that stands out: 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> $ grep -i error config.log 
>>>> pgcc-Error-Unknown switch: -qversion 
>>>> PGC/x86-64 Linux 18.4-0: compilation completed with severe errors 
>>>> PGC-S-0035-Syntax error: Recovery attempted by replacing identifier error by ';' (conftest.c: 14) 
>>>> PGC/x86-64 Linux 18.4-0: compilation completed with severe errors 
>>>> |                    Syntax error 
>>>> PGC-S-0035-Syntax error: Recovery attempted by replacing identifier error by ';' (conftest.c: 14) 
>>>> PGC/x86-64 Linux 18.4-0: compilation completed with severe errors 
>>>> |                    Syntax error 
>>>> configure:5951: error: in `/home/laytonjb/src/mpich-3.2.1': 
>>>> configure:5953: error: C preprocessor "/opt/pgi/linux86-64/18.4/bin/pgcc" fails sanity check 
>>>> HAVE_ERROR_CHECKING='' 
>>>> MPI_MAX_ERROR_STRING='' 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not sure how to fix this error. I've attached the config.log file in case this helps. 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for any and all help. 
>>>> 
>>>> Jeff 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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