The new release note reads: - Building Open MPI on a NetBSD-6 AMD64 system will run into obscure compile-time failures if f95/g95 is found in the path. You can work around such problems by removing g95 from your path.
The problem surfaces on i386 too, and use of gfortran seems the best fix. My recommended rewrite: - On NetBSD-6 (at least AMD64 and i386) libtool misidentifies properties of f95/g95, leading to obscure compile-time failures if used to build Open MPI. You can work around this issue by either installing gfortran, removing f95 and g95 from your path, or by configuring Open MPI to disable the fortran bindings. -Paul On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com > wrote: > Sounds like a release note to me. Thanks for tracking this down! > > On Jan 11, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> wrote: > > > I have been able to make some progress on understanding the cause of > this issue. > > > > Looking at the generated libtool is is clearly broken, being for an > a.out system when this is an elf platform. > > Comparison to the WORKING netbsd6-i386 platform revealed the difference > is the presence of g95 on the amd64 box. > > > > Examining the configure output reveals that libtools' probes of f95 > decide (incorrectly) that this is an a.out platform: > > > > checking whether the f95 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared > libraries... Warning (116): Reading file <stdin> as free form > > yes > > checking dynamic linker characteristics... Warning (116): Reading file > <stdin> as free form > > NetBSD (a.out) ld.so > > > > Even though probes of gcc and g++ find elf: > > > > checking whether the gcc -std=gnu99 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared > libraries... yes > > checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no > > checking dynamic linker characteristics... NetBSD ld.elf_so > > > > checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared > libraries... yes > > checking dynamic linker characteristics... NetBSD ld.elf_so > > > > > > I have confirmed that installing g95 on the netbsd6-i386 platform > (indirect consequence of "pkgin upgrade") causes the failure to manifest > there too. > > Similarly, removing g95 on the netbsd6-amd64 system resolves the > original problem. > > > > I am not personally interested in pursing the root cause of the > libtool+g95 problem. > > However, I have attached configure's stdout and the config.log (for > 1.9a1r30255) for anybody who is. > > > > > > -Paul > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> > wrote: > > Attached is the output from "make install" of 1.7.4rc1 + Jeff's fix for > the symbol conflict on "if_mtu". > > > > There appear to be at least 2 issues. > > > > 1) There are lots of (not fatal) messages about ldconfig not existing, > but according to he NetBSD lists that utility went away with the conversion > from a.out to ELF. > > > > 2) Many warnings of the form > > *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library > > > > 3) The final (fatal) error about .libs/mca_btl_sm.soT not existing. > > > > I am going to see if I can get a better result using the system libtool > (which is 2.2.6b, thus OLDER than OMPI's 2.4.2) and will report back with > my results. > > > > -Paul > > > > -- > > Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov > > Future Technologies Group > > Computer and Data Sciences Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 > > Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900 > > > > > > > > -- > > Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov > > Future Technologies Group > > Computer and Data Sciences Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 > > Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900 > > > <config.log.bz2><configure.stdout.bz2>_______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list > > de...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > -- Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov Future Technologies Group Computer and Data Sciences Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900
