[mvapich-discuss] recompile with -fPIC

[Jonathan Perkins]

Hello Scott.

Try building mvapich2 with the following configure...
    ./configure --with-slurm=../slurm/usr/local/ --enable-shared

Then make sure OpenFOAM links against the libmpich.so instead of
libmpich.a.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 04:58:10PM -0700, Haynes, Scott wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
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> I have been trying to build OpenFOAM 2.1 with mvapich2-1.8-r5609.  The
> error I am receiving is pasted below.  "
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> ===== (Error)======
> 
> /users/p20558/apps/binutils/bin/ld:
> /users/p20558/apps/mvapich2-1.8-gcc/lib/libmpich.a(setbotf.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32 against `mpifcmb2_' can not be used when making a
> shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> 
> /users/p20558/apps/mvapich2-1.8-gcc/lib/libmpich.a: could not read
> symbols: Bad value
> 
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> =================
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> I am using gcc 4.6 to compile both mvapich2 & OpenFOAM with the -fPIC
> flag (position independent code). I think the error above is the linker
> telling me that mvapich2 is not PIC & I need to recompile libmpich.a  .
> I have tried rebuilding mvapich2 using several different configurations
> each time libmpich.a is not PIC & I have been unsuccessful changing
> that.  My best guess at a configure line is below:
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> ./configure --with-slurm=../slurm/usr/local/ --enable-shared=gcc
> CFLAGS=-fPIC CXXFLAGS=-fPIC CPPFLAGS=-fPIC
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> I assume it is possible to compile mvapich2 as PIC? Is there something
> obvious I could add or delete from the configure statement above?  Any
> other debugging information I could provide?
> 
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> 
> Thanks & Best Regards
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> Scott 
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> Scott Haynes
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> Wind Development
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