[MPICH] Problem in Configuring MPICH2 with option --with-device=ch3:ib on 64bit intel xeon platform!

[William Gropp]

At 12:04 AM 9/29/2005, devesh sharma wrote:
>Hi I am trying to configure mpich2-1.0.2p1 on intel xeon 64bit
>supermicro machine  with RHEL4 OS, while configuring with following
>command
>
># ./configure --prefix=/data3/mpich2 --with-device=ch3:ib
>--with-pm=mpd --disable-romio --without-mpe
>
>after configuring INFINIBAND CHANNEL I get following error
>
>RUNNING CONFIGURE FOR LOCKS
>checking for gcc... gcc
>checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
>C compiler cannot create executables
>See `config.log' for more details.
>configure: error: Configure of src/mpid/common/locks failed!
>
>What do I do Please Help  me.

I've confirmed that the problem is in the configure in 
src/mpid/ch3/channels/ib .  I'm not sure that this channel is current, but 
if you want to try it, you'll need to modify the IB_LDFLAGS variable in 
that configure and make sure that you have the libraries that the ib 
channel is expecting.  I've filed a bug report (mpich2-maint at mcs.anl.gov) 
on this, since the configure step should check that the necessary libraries 
are available and contain the needed routines.  Sorry about the problem.

Bill


William Gropp
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~gropp