Configure error: with Intel MPI compilers.

[Rob Latham]

On 07/28/2015 06:43 AM, Dhirendra Kumar wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to compile parallel-netcdf-1.6.1 on a linux cluster. I have
> a preinstalled Intel MPI library and thus I have intel compilers wrapped
> as mpiicc, mpiicpc and mpiifort in the directory
> /opt/intel/impi/4.1.0.024/intel64/bin- <http://4.1.0.024/intel64/bin->
>
> I have successfully installed the HDF5 library using the above compilers
> and I wish to build the netcdf-4.3.3.1 with parallel support. Before
> doing that as I came to know that I need to install the pnetcdf library
> so tried I with the following configure options-
>
> ./configure CC=mpiicc CXX=mpiicpc FC=mpiifort
> --prefix=/export/home/dkumar/RLIB
> CPPFLAGS=-I/export/home/dkumar/RLIB/include
> LDFLAGS=-L/export/home/dkumar/RLIB/lib


Well, mpiicc is not your C compiler.  icc is your C compiler.

try either --with-mpi=/opt/intel/impi/4.1.0.024/intel64/

or

set CC=icc CXX=icxx, FC=ifort  etc.

==rob

>
> and I am getting the following error:
> checking for mpicc... /opt/intel/impi/4.1.0.024/intel64/bin/mpicc
> <http://4.1.0.024/intel64/bin/mpicc>
> checking for gcc... /opt/intel/impi/4.1.0.024/intel64/bin/mpicc
> <http://4.1.0.024/intel64/bin/mpicc>
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in `/home/dkumar/RLIB/parallel-netcdf-1.6.1':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details
> configure: WARNING: cache variable ac_cv_env_FCFLAGS_value contains a
> newline
>
> I am not able to figure out what went wrong, but I think the configure
> script could not identify the mpicc (i.e. mpiicc is not being used for
> compiling).
>
> Any help would be appreciated. I am attaching the config.log file for
> the reference.
>
> Regards
> Dhirendra Kumar
>
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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA