On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:24 AM Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]> wrote:
> > One easy thing we could do is make the binutils easyblock check whether > both 'gcc' and 'g++' are present, and emit a clear warning if they're > missing? > That would help significantly, since pinpointing the underlying problem > is clearly not trivial. > +1 > > Not sure we should make that a hard failure though, as there may be > situation where not having gcc/g++ is actually fine (e.g. when 'cc' and > 'c++' compilers are available, and can be used to compile binutils). > > One other option could be to detect that the build failed because g++ is > not there (by recognizing the pattern in the configure output or in > config.log). > > Same applies for GCC(core), where you also need a system C++ compiler > with sufficiently recent versions... > > > regards, > > Kenneth > > > > > > > /Ole > > > >> From: [email protected] > >> <[email protected]> on behalf of Ole Holm Nielsen > >> <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2019 09:11 > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [easybuild] Building foss-2019a fails in > >> binutils-2.31.1.eb (Skylake node) > >> > >> Hi Olivier, > >> > >> On 2/20/19 10:18 PM, Olivier Mattelaer wrote: > >>> I actually face the same issue. > >>> > >>> The actual error message is this one: > >>> > >>> configure: error: in > >>> > `/usr/local/Software/build/lm3-w091/binutils/2.31.1/dummy-/binutils-2.31.1/gold': > > >>> > >>> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > >>> See `config.log' for more details > >>> yes > >>> checking whether compiling a cross-assembler... no > >>> checking for size_t... checking locale.h usability... make[1]: *** > >>> [configure-gold] Error 1 > >>> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > >>> > >>> > >>> I guess that doing: "yum install gcc-c++" would solve the issue. > >>> But I have not tested yet. But does it make sense to do that? > >> > >> Your suggestion fixed the problem with binutils: yum install gcc-c++ > >> Now it build correctly, and the foss-2019a build process is continuing. > >> > >> What's the root cause of this issue? I'm guessing that the EB file > >> > .../EasyBuild/3.8.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild_easyconfigs-3.8.1-py2.7.egg/easybuild/easyconfigs/b/binutils/binutils-2.31.1.eb > > >> > >> > >> must include gcc-c++ as an osdependencies package. > >> > >> If this guess is correct, I could open an issue. > -- Pablo Escobar López Linux/HPC systems engineer sciCORE, University of Basel SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
