[petsc-users] configure cannot find a c preprocessor

[Santiago Andres Triana]

This is what I get:

hpca-login:~> mpicc -show
gcc -I/opt/sgi/mpt/mpt-2.12/include -L/opt/sgi/mpt/mpt-2.12/lib -lmpi
-lpthread /usr/lib64/libcpuset.so.1 /usr/lib64/libbitmask.so.1

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> >>>
> Executing: mpicc -E  -I/dev/shm/pbs.3111462.hpc-pbs/petsc-fdYfuH/config.setCompilers
> /dev/shm/pbs.3111462.hpc-pbs/petsc-fdYfuH/config.setCompilers/conftest.c
> stderr:
> gcc: warning: /usr/lib64/libcpuset.so.1: linker input file unused because
> linking not done
> gcc: warning: /usr/lib64/libbitmask.so.1: linker input file unused because
> linking not done
> <<<<
>
> Looks like your mpicc is printing this verbose thing on stdout [why is
> it doing a link check during preprocesing?] - thus confusing PETSc
> configure.
>
> Workarround is to fix this compiler not to print such messages. Or use
> different compilers..
>
> What do you have for:
>
> mpicc -show
>
>
> Satish
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Santiago Andres Triana wrote:
>
> > Dear petsc-users,
> >
> > I'm trying to install petsc in a cluster using SGI's MPT. The mpicc
> > compiler is in the search path. The configure command is:
> >
> > ./configure --with-scalar-type=complex --with-mumps=1 --download-mumps
> > --download-parmetis --download-metis --download-scalapack
> >
> > However, this leads to an error (configure.log attached):
> >
> > ============================================================
> ===================
> >              Configuring PETSc to compile on your system
> >
> > ============================================================
> ===================
> > TESTING: checkCPreprocessor from
> > config.setCompilers(config/BuildSystem/config/setCompilers.py:599)
> >
> > ************************************************************
> *******************
> >          UNABLE to CONFIGURE with GIVEN OPTIONS    (see configure.log for
> > details):
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------
> > Cannot find a C preprocessor
> > ************************************************************
> *******************
> >
> > The configure.log says something about cpp32, here's the excerpt:
> >
> > Possible ERROR while running preprocessor: exit code 256
> > stderr:
> > gcc: error: cpp32: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > Any ideas of what is going wrong? any help or comments are highly
> > appreciated. Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Andres
> >
>
>
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