[MPICH] Problems with mpicc

Rusty Lusk lusk at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Jul 19 15:58:48 CDT 2007


Just in case this might be the problem, I'll remind you that there is  
a system program named "test" which does nothing but set the exit code.
Are you sure you aren't accidentally running this program instead of  
the one compiled from code.c but linked as "test"?

Rusty

On Jul 19, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:

> Afternoon,
>
> I built mpich2-1.0.5p4 with g95 and gcc 3.4.3 (see below).
> Here's the configuration I used:
>
> ./configure  -prefix=/home/laytonj/bin/mpich2-1.0.5p4-g95  \
> --enable-f77 --enable-f90 --enable-romio --disable-mpe \
> --with-file-system="nfs+ufs"
>
> MPICH2 seemed to build and install just fine. Then I tried
> compiling one of the non-MPI-IO codes from the MPI-2
> book (see below). When I compile:
>
> mpicc code.c -o test
>
> it just hangs for a long time (I've let it sit for over 20 mins.).
> The load stays around 1.0 and the memory usage doesn't
> increase during the whole time.
>
> I know this one is a toughy. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
>
> gcc configuration:
> % gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.3/specs
> Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man  
> --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix -- 
> disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable- 
> libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.1)
>
> sample code:
> /* example of sequential Unix write into a common file */
> #include "mpi.h"
> #include <stdio.h>
> #define BUFSIZE 100
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>    int i, myrank, numprocs, buf[BUFSIZE];
>    MPI_Status status;
>    FILE *myfile;
>
>    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);
>    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &myrank);
>    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &numprocs);
>    for (i=0; i<BUFSIZE; i++)
>        buf[i] = myrank * BUFSIZE + i;
>    if (myrank != 0)
>        MPI_Send(buf, BUFSIZE, MPI_INT, 0, 99, MPI_COMM_WORLD);
>    else {
>        myfile = fopen("testfile", "w");
>        fwrite(buf, sizeof(int), BUFSIZE, myfile);
>        for (i=1; i<numprocs; i++) {
>            MPI_Recv(buf, BUFSIZE, MPI_INT, i, 99, MPI_COMM_WORLD,
>                     &status);
>            fwrite(buf, sizeof(int), BUFSIZE, myfile);
>        }
>        fclose(myfile);
>    }
>    MPI_Finalize();
>    return 0;
> }
>
>
>




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