[mvapich-discuss] configure: error: 'infiniband/mad.h not found. Please retry with --disable-mcast'

[Michael Thomadakis]

Hello,

after installing the libibmad-devel RPM building mvapich2 went fine.

thanks!

Michael


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Michael Thomadakis <tamumiket at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Jonathan. I will install the missing RPM.
>
> cheers
> Michael
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Jonathan Perkins <
> perkinjo at cse.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>
>> Michael, you'd need to install libibmad-devel.  This provides the
>> development files for multicast support to be enabled.  This is an
>> important feature which would lead to performance degradation if
>> disabled automatically.  We plan on improving the error message in
>> future releases.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 06:52:22PM -0500, Michael Thomadakis wrote:
>> > Conversely, I would ask what RPMs would they need to be installed to fix
>> > this on a RHEL 6u3 ?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Michael
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> > > My configure dies with this:
>> > >
>> > > configure: error: 'infiniband/mad.h not found. Please retry with
>> > > --disable-mcast'
>> > >
>> > > Obviously, I can read and thus know how to fix this, but isn't the
>> > > point of configure to detect what features are available and not
>> > > attempt to use ones that are not available?  Shouldn't configure
>> > > automatically disable mcast for me when infiniband/mad.h is not found?
>> > >  To throw this error seems to go against the fundamental principle of
>> > > why projects use configure.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > Jeff
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Jeff Hammond
>> > > jeff.science at gmail.com
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>> --
>> Jonathan Perkins
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>>
>>
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