Problem installing petsc on a Blue Gene/L

[Barry Smith]

    Since the BlueGene is a batch system you need the additional  
option --with-batch and follow
the directions.

    Barry

On Dec 29, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Shi Jin wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have been trying to install petsc-3.0 on a Blue Gene/L system.
> Here is what I used to configure:
> ./configure --CC=blrts_xlc --CFLAGS="-I/bgl/BlueLight/ppcfloor/ 
> bglsys/include -qtune=440 -qarch=440d -qlist -qsource  -O3    -L/bgl/ 
> BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys/lib -lmpich.rts -lmsglayer.rts -lrts.rts - 
> ldevices.rts" --with-mpi-compilers=0 --with-fortran=0
>
> I got an error as following:
> TESTING: checkSizeof from config.types(/gpfs/bglscratch/pi/sjin/src/ 
> petsc-3.0.0-p0/config/BuildSystem/config/types.py:251)
> *********************************************************************************
>         UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log  
> for details):
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Unable to determine sizeof_char
> *********************************************************************************
>
> Here is the relevant configure.log part:
> TEST checkSizeof from config.types(/gpfs/bglscratch/pi/sjin/src/ 
> petsc-3.0.0-p0/config/BuildSystem/config/types.py:251)
> TESTING: checkSizeof from config.types(/gpfs/bglscratch/pi/sjin/src/ 
> petsc-3.0.0-p0/config/BuildSystem/config/types.py:251)
>  Determines the size of type "typeName", and defines  
> SIZEOF_"typeName" to be the size
> Checking for size of type: char
>          Pushing language C
> sh: blrts_xlc -c -o conftest.o -I/bgl/BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys/ 
> include -qtune=440 -qarch=440d -qlist -qsource  -O3    -L/bgl/ 
> BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys/lib -lmpich.rts -lmsglayer.rts -lrts.rts - 
> ldevices.rts -g  conftest.c
> Executing: blrts_xlc -c -o conftest.o -I/bgl/BlueLight/ppcfloor/ 
> bglsys/include -qtune=440 -qarch=440d -qlist -qsource  -O3    -L/bgl/ 
> BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys/lib -lmpich.rts -lmsglayer.rts -lrts.rts - 
> ldevices.rts -g  conftest.c
> sh:
>                      Pushing language C
>                      Popping language C
> sh: blrts_xlc  -o conftest   -I/bgl/BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys/ 
> include -qtune=440 -qarch=440d -qlist -qsource  -O3    -L/bgl/ 
> BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys/lib -lmpich.rts -lmsglayer.rts -lrts.rts - 
> ldevices.rts -g  conftest.o
> Executing: blrts_xlc  -o conftest   -I/bgl/BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys/ 
> include -qtune=440 -qarch=440d -qlist -qsource  -O3    -L/bgl/ 
> BlueLight/ppcfloor/bglsys/lib -lmpich.rts -lmsglayer.rts -lrts.rts - 
> ldevices.rts -g  conftest.o
> sh:
> Executing: ./conftest
> sh: ./conftest
> Executing: ./conftest
> sh:
> ERROR while running executable: Could not execute './conftest':
> *********************************************************************************
>         UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log  
> for details):
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Unable to determine sizeof_char
> *********************************************************************************
>  File "./configure", line 217, in petsc_configure
>    framework.configure(out = sys.stdout)
>  File "/gpfs/bglscratch/pi/sjin/src/petsc-3.0.0-p0/config/ 
> BuildSystem/config/framework.py", line 884, in configure
>    child.configure()
>  File "/gpfs/bglscratch/pi/sjin/src/petsc-3.0.0-p0/config/ 
> BuildSystem/config/types.py", line 353, in configure
>    map(lambda type: self.executeTest(self.checkSizeof, type),  
> ['char','void *', 'short', 'int', 'long', 'long long', 'float',  
> 'double', 'size_t'])
>  File "/gpfs/bglscratch/pi/sjin/src/petsc-3.0.0-p0/config/ 
> BuildSystem/config/types.py", line 353, in <lambda>
>    map(lambda type: self.executeTest(self.checkSizeof, type),  
> ['char','void *', 'short', 'int', 'long', 'long long', 'float',  
> 'double', 'size_t'])
>  File "/gpfs/bglscratch/pi/sjin/src/petsc-3.0.0-p0/config/ 
> BuildSystem/config/base.py", line 97, in executeTest
>    ret = apply(test, args,kargs)
>  File "/gpfs/bglscratch/pi/sjin/src/petsc-3.0.0-p0/config/ 
> BuildSystem/config/types.py", line 275, in checkSizeof
>    raise RuntimeError('Unable to determine '+typename)
>
> Do you know what could be my possible cause of the error?
> I wrote a simple C test code and was able to show that  
> sizeof(char)=1. Is there a way to get the conftest.c code and try it  
> out manually?
> Thanks a lot.
>
> --
> Shi Jin, PhD
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