Thank you all for your responses. First of all, I tried to go to freenode and I was getting error 522.
I went ahead and built GCC 4.7.3 via the premade easyconfig file. That seemed to work fine. I then went on to create my own openmpi easyconfig file using the GCC toolchain. Here is the file: name = 'openmpi' version = '1.7.4' homepage = 'http://www.open-mpi.org/' description = "abc" toolchain = {'name': 'GCC', 'version': '4.7.3'} toolchainopts = {'shared': True, 'static': True} sources = ['openmpi-1.7.4.tar.bz2'] moduleclass = 'library' I am getting this error: == temporary log file in case of crash /tmp/easybuild-7xKDe8/easybuild-04bhaY.log == resolving dependencies ... == processing EasyBuild easyconfig /afs/crc.nd.edu/x86_64_linux/easybuild-soft/src/openmpi/1.7.4/openmpi-1.7.4.eb == building and installing openmpi/1.7.4-GCC-4.7.3... == fetching files... == creating build dir, resetting environment... == unpacking... == patching... == preparing... == configuring... ERROR: EasyBuild encountered an exception (at easybuild/main.py:809 in build_and_install_software): autoBuild Failed (last 300 chars): 86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/afs/crc.nd.edu/user/k/khostetl/.local/easybuild/build/openmpi/1.7.4/GCC-4.7.3.1/openmpi-1.7.4': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details I am not sure what the problem is for sure. I have easybuild installed on my local space on our network, but I am making the compilations on a shared space on our network, including GCC 4.7.3. So one thought of mine was that the GCC 4.7.3 was not being found, but I would have expected a failure during fetching or resolving dependencies. Another thought was that I needed to have GCC 4.7.3 module loaded, but I tried that to no avail. The configure error is what is really confusing. I have no idea what it means. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fotis Georgatos [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [easybuild] GCC Hi, On Mar 7, 2014, at 5:32 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > sources = ['gcc-4.7.3.tar.gz'] just for the record, the above would never work, simply because upstream instruction (from gcc folks) dictate that the sources of a gcc build are a more rich set of sources (mpfr etc). Going with the by-default provided easyconfigs is the recommended approach if you are a newcomer in this business, and inspecting the easyblocks gives you a good idea of what EB does for you under the hood. Esp. the GCC easyblock is a very good one and an educating read for newcomers. (N.B. defined class is "EB_GCC", which is calculated from the package name) enjoy, Fotis -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # Yelling in a CERN forum
