I'm trying to install mpich-1.2.0 on a GNU/Debian (Alpha) 2.1 Linux (2.2.12) box which mounts its filesystem via nfs. I configured the source tree using;
# ./configure --with-device=ch_p4 --with-arch=LINUX_ALPHA --with-mpe -opt="-mcpu=ev4" --disable-f77 --disable-f90 -disable-devdebug -prefix=/usr/local/mpich-1.2.0 which succeeds, but produces a couple of messages that concern me; : : Configuring p4 subsystem... checking for gcc... cc checking whether the C compiler (cc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (cc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether cc accepts -g... yes checking for mmap... yes checking that shared, anonymous mmap works with -1 filedes... no! checking that semget works... undetermined *# Could not compile program : : Could not compile program!? Can anyone shed some light on this, what is semget?? why might it be undetermined?? I'm running kernel 2.2.12. Later in the configure process, I see; : : Configuring the test suite... Configuring with args -basecc=cc -cc=/home/shaunc/mpich-1.2.0/bin/mpicc -nof77 -make=make --no-print-directory -mpichpath=/home/shaunc/mpich-1.2.0/bin -cflags=-DMPID_NO_FORTRAN -DMPID_NO_FORTRAN -DUSE_SOCKLEN_T -DUSE_U_INT_FOR_XDR -DHAVE_MPICHCONF_H Don't build the tests that need Fortran *# Unrecognized configure option configuring for "LINUX_ALPHA" target architecture : : Humm... unrecognized configure option..... As I said, the configure completes ok, so I ran 'make', then 'make testing' (in the examples/test subdir). Here's where my problem begins, the tests start ok, but seem to take forever, printing; : : Making testing in directory pt2pt ./runtests -small **** Testing MPI Point-to-point routines **** SC-Cluster-10 : Tue Feb 1 08:42:11 /etc/localtime 2000 /home/shaunc/mpich-1.2.0/bin/mpicc -DMPID_NO_FORTRAN -DMPID_NO_FORTRAN -DUSE_SOCKLEN_T -DUSE_U_INT_FOR_XDR -DHAVE_MPICHCONF_H -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DUSE_STDARG=1 -DHAVE_LONG_DOUBLE=1 -DHAVE_LONG_LONG_INT=1 -DHAVE_PROTOTYPES=1 -DHAVE_SIGNAL_H=1 -DHAVE_SIGACTION=1 -c sendrecv.c /home/shaunc/mpich-1.2.0/bin/mpicc -o sendrecv sendrecv.o test.o **** Testing MPI_Send and MPI_Recv **** The machine then sits there for many hours after which time I get bored and hit Ctrl-C, 4 instances of 'sendrecv' are listed in the output from 'top', only two of which seem to be doing anything. This is a 166MHz machine, so its not a rocket, but I would still expect the test suite to complete within a few hours, or at least progress past the first test. Any ideas anyone?? Any suggestions greatly appreciated, Shaun PS: yep, the filesystem is mounted 'noac'. -- Shaun Cloherty Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering University of New South Wales
