[petsc-users] configure cannot find a c preprocessor

[Satish Balay]

Its strange compiler.

You can try:

./configure --with-cc=gcc --with-fc=gfortran --with-cxx=g++ --with-mpi-include=/opt/sgi/mpt/mpt-2.12/include --with-mpi-lib="-L/opt/sgi/mpt/mpt-2.12/lib -lmpi -lpthread /usr/lib64/libcpuset.so.1 /usr/lib64/libbitmask.so.1"

Satish

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Santiago Andres Triana wrote:

> 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
> > >
> >
> >
>