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

[Jeff Hammond]

The problem exists in PGI 18 but not PGI 17.  This seems like a PGI bug
rather than an MPICH one.

Jeff

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Jeff Layton <laytonjb at att.net> wrote:

> 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=''
>
>
>
> 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>
> <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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