Problems with PGI and 1.1.1

[Wei-keng Liao]

Hi, Dave,

Can you check if your machine is 32bit or 64bit?
 From the segfault place, I suspect it may be because of 32bit  
platforms.

Wei-keng

On May 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, David Robertson wrote:

> On 5/17/2010 9:54 AM, Gerry Creager wrote:
>> Dave
>>
>> First, PGI 8 should never have seen the light of day. We back- 
>> ported to
>> 7.2 after a month of sys admin testing. ( was better. 10.3 is good,  
>> but
>> now 10.5 is out. Keeping up is a pain.
>
> I tried with 10.5 and the tests fail at a different place  
> (ncmpi_inq_var).
>
> I have tried to run nc_test in the totalview debugger. With MPICH  
> and PGI 10.5, the segfault occurs at line 638 of src/lib/var.c:
>
> (void) strncpy(name, varp->name->cp, varp->name->nchars);
>
>> I'll have to run the test suite again, but on "real" wrf runs, it
>> appears to behave fine.
>>
>> Are you sure OpenMPI and the mpich flavors were compiled with -fPIC?
>> That was a problem I ran into, although it appeared as a compile-time
>> error.
>
> All of my MPI implementations are static only so as far as I know - 
> fPIC won't do anything.
>
>> gerry
>>
>>
>> David Robertson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having problems with "make testing" (in nc_test) using PGI. I  
>>> have
>>> tried 3 mpi implementations (MPICH, MPICH2, and Open MPI) and 3
>>> versions (8.0, 9.0, and 10.1) of the PGI compiler. All of these
>>> compile without errors. However, They all Segfault at different  
>>> places
>>> when I run the testing suite.
>>>
>>> For example, PGI 10.1 with Open MPI segfaults while testing
>>> ncmpi_get_var1_short but 9.0 with Open MPI segfaults while testing
>>> ncmpi_get_var_schar. Both the compiler version and MPI  
>>> implementation
>>> seem to affect where nc_test fails.
>>>
>>> On the same machine I can compile and test with both ifort and
>>> gfortran using either MPICH2 or Open MPI. The combination of ifort  
>>> and
>>> MPICH is also successful.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions would be helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave
>>
>