[mpich-discuss] building 64-bit MPICH2 on AIX

[Anthony Chan]

Try adding AR="ar -X64" to the rest of your configure arguments
when configuring...  Also, since you set *FLAGS to -q64, you
should NOT set any of the MPICH2LIB_*FLAGS.

A.Chan 

----- "Robert Yelle" <ryelle at uoregon.edu> wrote:

> Hello Dave,
> 
> 
> I just typed "make" (GNU Make 3.80), but in response to your comment I
> 
> just tried "make -j 1", and it resulted in the same error.
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> Dave Goodell wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > Are you building with "make -j N"?  These look like errors that
> would 
> > be produced from a parallel make.  The mpich2 build process doesn't
> 
> > support parallel make at this time.
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> > On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Robert Yelle wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> Has anybody tried to build 64-bit versions of MPICH2 on an AIX 
> >> platform?  What arguments should one use?  I tried to build a
> 64-bit 
> >> version of MPICH2 (version 1.0.8) using the following arguments:
> >>
> >>
> >> > ./configure 
> >> --prefix=/usr/local/packages/mpich2/1.0.8_ibm-9.0-11.1_64 
> >> OBJECT_MODE=64 C
> >> C=/usr/vacpp/bin/xlc CXX=/usr/vacpp/bin/xlc++ FC=/bin/xlf 
> >> F77=/bin/xlf F90=/bin/xlf90 CFLA
> >> GS=-q64 FFLAGS=-q64 F90FLAGS=-q64 MPICH2LIB_CFLAGS=-q64 
> >> MPICH2LIB_FFLAGS=-q64 MPICH2LIB_CX
> >> XFLAGS=-q64 MPICH2LIB_F90FLAGS=-q64
> >>
> >>
> >> Configure works fine, but "make" exits with the following error:
> >>
> >>
> >> make[3]: Leaving directory 
> >> `/mnt/netapp/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/binding/cxx'
> >> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> >> `/mnt/netapp/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/binding'
> >> make[2]: Entering directory 
> >> `/mnt/netapp/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/env'
> >> /usr/vacpp/bin/xlc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../include -q64 -O2
> -q64 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/ch3/include 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/ch3/include 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/common/datatype 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/common/datatype 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/common/locks 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/common/locks 
> >>
> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/ch3/channels/sock/include
> 
> >>
> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/ch3/channels/sock/include
> 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/common/sock 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/common/sock 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/common/sock/poll 
> >> -I/usr/local/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/mpid/common/sock/poll -c
> 
> >> mpich2version.c
> >> /usr/vacpp/bin/xlc -q64 -O2 -q64  -o mpich2version mpich2version.o 
> \
> >> ../../lib/libmpich.a -lpthread          ld: 0711-204 SEVERE ERROR:
> 
> >> Archive file ../../lib/libmpich.a cannot be processed.
> >>       The number of archive members (0), specified in the archive
> member
> >>       table, is less than or equal to 0 or is not consistent with
> the 
> >> length
> >>       of the member table.
> >> make[2]: *** [mpich2version] Error 12
> >> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> >> `/mnt/netapp/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src/env'
> >> make[1]: *** [all-redirect] Error 2
> >> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/mnt/netapp/packages/src/mpich2-1.0.8/src'
> >> make: *** [all-redirect] Error 2
> >>
> >>
> >> The platform is an IBM Power4 running AIX 5.3.  Compilers are IBM
> xlc 
> >> version 9.0 and xlf version 11.1.  Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >> Robert Yelle
> >>
> >
> >