Thanks Jeff and Renato for your help.
Renato,
You are right. Perl alias was pointing to somewhere else. I was able to
install openmpi using previous released version of it.

Thanks.


Vinay K. Mittal

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Renato Golin <renato.go...@linaro.org>
wrote:

> On 23 March 2017 at 17:39, Vinay Mittal <vinaykmit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I need mpirun to run a genome assembler.
> >
> > Linux installation of openmpi-2.1.0 stops during make all saying:
> >
> > "Perl 5.006 required--this is only version 5.00503, stopped at
> > /usr/share/perl5/vars.pm line 3."
>
> This looks like Perl's own verification process (inside vars.pm), and
> a broken one at that.
>
> Perl 5.005 is really old (98) and it's the minimal Perl you should
> possibly be using. A quick look at Perl History [1] shows that there
> is no such thing as Perl 5.006!
>
> I suggest you clean up and upgrade your Perl installation before
> trying to install OpenMPI again. :)
>
> cheers,
> --renato
>
> [1] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html
> _______________________________________________
> users mailing list
> users@lists.open-mpi.org
> https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
users@lists.open-mpi.org
https://rfd.newmexicoconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Reply via email to