[mpich-discuss] Build in Solaris 10 x86 HELP...

[Dave Goodell]

for the archives: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/ticket/1545

On Nov 8, 2011, at 1:03 PM CST, Dave Goodell wrote:

> It looks like the assembler on your machine doesn't like some of the enhanced memcpy code that we've written into nemesis.  This appears to be a Solaris on x86 machine, and the configure script decides that x86 assembly is supported by the assembler by using a small test program.  Unfortunately, the assembler does not support a more complicated hunk of inline assembly listed here:
> 
> http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/browser/mpich2/tags/release/mpich2-1.4.1p1/src/mpid/ch3/channels/nemesis/nemesis/include/mpid_nem_memdefs.h
> 
> In the short run, you should be able to get unstuck by editing 12 of that file to read "#if 0" instead.  If the relevant section of the configure.in file was written correctly then there would be other easy ways to get around this, but unfortunately it appears to be buggy.
> 
> A heavier weight option would be to upgrade your GCC and assembler packages so that the fancier assembly code is understood correctly.  I personally wouldn't bother with this, but it should work.
> 
> In the long run we should probably make the configure test more robust, and also add a "--disable-asm-memcpy" option or similar so that no code editing is required.  I'll add a ticket for this in trac.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> On Nov 8, 2011, at 11:57 AM CST, renato at dokfile.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am tring build MPICH2 in Solaris 10, and I dont have success.
>> 
>> Fist I have problems in configuration, now I put it to work, but now I have problems in build.
>> 
>> Whell, this is what I did ->
>> 
>> ./configure CC=gcc CXX=g++ --disable-f77 --disable-fc --prefix=/MPICH/mpich2-install/ 2>&1 | tee c.txt
>> 
>> The result is OK, see ->
>> 
>> ..
>> Configuration completed.
>> -bash-3.00#
>> 
>> Then, I did make ->
>> 
>> make 2>&1 | tee m.txt
>> 
>> Assembler: dataloop.c
>>        "/var/tmp//ccuee48e.s", line 493 : Syntax error
>>        Near line: "mov $PREFETCHBLOCK/16, %eax"
>>        "/var/tmp//ccuee48e.s", line 501 : Syntax error
>>        Near line: "mov $PREFETCHBLOCK/8, %eax"
>> make[5]: ** [dataloop.o] Erro 1
>> make[5]: Saindo do diretório `/MPICH/Source/mpich2-1.4.1p1/src/mpid/common/datatype/dataloop'
>> make[4]: ** [all-redirect] Erro 2
>> make[4]: Saindo do diretório `/MPICH/Source/mpich2-1.4.1p1/src/mpid/common/datatype'
>> make[3]: ** [all-redirect] Erro 2
>> make[3]: Saindo do diretório `/MPICH/Source/mpich2-1.4.1p1/src/mpid/common'
>> make[2]: ** [all-redirect] Erro 2
>> make[2]: Saindo do diretório `/MPICH/Source/mpich2-1.4.1p1/src/mpid'
>> make[1]: ** [all-redirect] Erro 2
>> make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/MPICH/Source/mpich2-1.4.1p1/src'
>> make: ** [all-redirect] Erro 2
>> -bash-3.00#
>> 
>> And error.
>> 
>> What is wrong..?
>> 
>> Thank you...
>> 
>> 
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