Pnetcdf compiling problem with OpenMpi on i386 Linux - MPI_File_sync

[Rob Ross]

Also, can you "nm" the MPI library and verify that MPI_File_sync is in  
there?

Thanks,

Rob

On May 13, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Robert Latham wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:36:51PM +0200, Zbigniew Piotrowski wrote:
>> I'm trying to compile Parallel Netcdf with the latest OpenMpi on  
>> Centos
>> linux 32 bit. Configure yields error:
>>
>> checking for library containing MPI_File_sync... no
>> configure: error: Cannot find MPI-IO library
>>
>> OpenMpi has been compiled from the latest stable source and  seems to
>> have ROMIO installed.
>
> Hi Zbigniew:
>
> I know others have built pnetcdf against openmpi, so we should be able
> to figure this out.
>
> could be a couple things.  Can you show me how you are invoking
> configure?  And then can you also show me the piece of 'config.log'
> that tests for MPI_File_sync?  Here's what one possible success
> condition looks like:
>
> configure:12639: checking for library containing MPI_File_sync
> configure:12680: /home/robl/work/soft/mpich2/bin/mpicc -o conftest - 
> Wall -g   conftest.c  >&5
> configure:12686: $? = 0
> configure:12714: result: none required
>
> There might be a few more lines in the failure case, but should let us
> know what went wrong.
>
> thanks
> ==rob
>
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