[MPICH] Newbee having pblms installing on sun

[Rajeev Thakur]

Try specifying the Sun compilers explicitly by setting the environment
variables CC, CXX, F77, F90 as
setenv CC cc
setenv CXX CC
setenv F77 f77
Setenv F90 f90

Rajeev

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Karl Schleicher
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:28 AM
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: [MPICH] Newbee having pblms installing on sun
> 
> I'm trying to install mpi on a cluster of Sun enterprise systems.  I 
> want to use several of our compute servers to solve one 
> problem.  I have 
> tried to do a little homework before asking for help, but now I'm 
> stuck.  I would appreciate help getting past these problem.
> 
> The steps I followed are:
>     ftp release to my computer
>     gunzip -c mpich2-1.0.2p1.tar.gz | tar -xovf -
>     cd mpich2-1.0.2p1
>     ./configure |& tee configure.log
> 
> Configure fails  with the log:
>  
> Configuring MPICH2 version 1.0.2
> sourcing /home/karl/mpi/mpich2-1.0.2p1/src/pm/mpd/setup_pm
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... cc
> cat: cannot open confdefs.h
> checking for C compiler default output file name... Can't 
> open conftest.c
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> I enterred "uname -a" to get:
> SunOS m00 5.6 Generic_105181-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
> 
> Some of the things I have tried are:
>     - building on a Linux PC.  Successful.
>     - building mpich-1.2.7. It hangs looking "checking for c++"
>     - building mpich2 on another Sun system with different 
> os.  It hangs 
> after:
>         "checking for g77... g77"
>     - The programmers and system administrators at my small 
> company are 
> unable to
>           to help.
>  
> I have additional information that I will provide if this is 
> insufficient. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Karl Schleicher
> Applied Geophysical Services
> 
> 
>