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

[Robert Yelle]

Hello Anthony,


Adding "Ar= -X64" to my configure arguments and not setting the 
MPICH2LIB flags did the trick, and everything seems to work now - thanks!


As an added note, this version of MPICH2 on AIX seems to require running 
mpd with the --ncpus option (say mpd --ncpus=8) in order to utilize more 
than 3 processes, whereas my builds on Linux have not required this 
(perhaps ncpus is picked up automatically in Linux?).  Just an FYI.


My thanks to all who responded,


Robert


Anthony Chan wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
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