[mvapich-discuss] problem when configuring in MVAPICH2 1.4

Jonathan Perkins perkinjo at cse.ohio-state.edu
Thu Oct 8 09:25:08 EDT 2009


On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:01:27PM +0200, Iris Pernille Lohmann wrote:
> Thank you very much! It works now just with ./configure - except that
> now the include-files cannot be found, so the ofed installation may in
> fact be incomplete. I am contacting the ones responsible.

I'm assuming that there are now /usr/include/infiniband/*.h files.
Please let us know whether a re-installation solves your problem or not.

> 
> Thank you again!

No problem.

> 
> Cheers,
> Iris
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Perkins [mailto:perkinjo at cse.ohio-state.edu] 
> Sent: 07 October 2009 15:55
> To: Iris Pernille Lohmann
> Cc: mvapich-discuss at cse.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: [mvapich-discuss] problem when configuring in MVAPICH2 1.4
> 
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Iris Pernille Lohmann wrote:
> > Dear list members,
> > 
> > I would like to try using MPICH2 with InfiniBand on the high performance computing cluster I am using, so I have downloaded the mvapich2-1.4rc2-3476.gz and unzipped it.
> > 
> > I have problems when running the ./configure.
> 
> Hello Iris.  My response is inline.
> 
> > 
> > I am using Linux with OpenFabricsIB, so following the instructions of 
> > the installation guide, I configure with ./configure --with-rdma=gen2 
> > >& configure1.log
> > 
> > The configuration fails because the libibumad cannot be found; I attached the configure1.log file, and here is the error message at the end of it:
> > ./configure: line 3635: enable_ftb-cr=no: command not found checking 
> > for the InfiniBand includes path... default checking for the 
> > InfiniBand library path... default checking for library containing 
> > umad_init... no
> > configure: error: 'libibumad not found. Did you specify --with-ib-libpath=?'
> > configure: error: ./configure failed for channels/mrail
> > configure: error: Configure of src/mpid/ch3 failed!
> > 
> > 
> > Then I configure with
> > ./configure --with-rdma=gen2 -with-ib-libpath=/usr/lib64 >& 
> > configure2.log
> > 
> > Where /usr/lib64 is the dir containing libibumad.so.1  and 
> > libibumad.so.1.0.3
> 
> Does libibumad.so exist?  If the link does not exist please create it by something like:
>     ln -s /usr/lib64/libibumad.so.1.0.3 /usr/lib64/libibumad.so
> 
> I've seen this behavior before where if the ofed installation is incomplete the required libibumad.so (and others) link was not created.
> 
> If this is the case then you should be able to configure by simply using ./configure without specifying any of the extra options.
> 
> > This configuration fails, still because libibumad cannot be found, 
> > this time with this message (and configure2.log is attached),
> > ./configure: line 3635: enable_ftb-cr=no: command not found checking 
> > for the InfiniBand includes path... default checking for the 
> > InfiniBand library path... /usr/lib64 checking for library containing 
> > umad_init... no
> > configure: error: 'libibumad not found. Did you specify --with-ib-libpath=?'
> > configure: error: ./configure failed for channels/mrail
> > configure: error: Configure of src/mpid/ch3 failed!
> > 
> > 
> > I have a feeling this is peace-of-cake for many of you, and I would be really grateful for a reply!
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Iris
> 
> --
> Jonathan Perkins
> http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~perkinjo
> 

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