[mvapich-discuss] Building mvapich2

[Jonathan Perkins]

Can you send us config.log?  We may be able to pinpoint the cause of
the issue.  After taking a look at this I may be able to help with the
slurm issue too.

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:13 PM, David Race
<david.race at daviddenisefamily.com> wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for the information.  We are looking at using ethernet without IB, so I
> have added the --with-device=ch3:nemesis:tcp.  That part seems to be okay.
>
> The SLURM part seems to be causing a problem.  We have installed SLURM into
> /opt/slurm/default, so when I add
> "--with-pm=no  --with-pmi=slurm   --with-slurm=/opt/slurm/default" to the
> configure line I get the failure.
>
> My failure stays the same:
>
> checking for size of MPI_Status... configure: error: unable to compute status
> size, are you compiling on a non-2s-complement host?
>
> I will start digging through the configure script to find the issue.
>
> Thanks
>
> David Race
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 12:00:34 PM Jonathan Perkins wrote:
>> Hello.  Are you trying to build MVAPICH2 in shared memory only mode or
>> do you intend to use your ethernet fabric for inter-node
>> communication?
>>
>> If you intend to use ethernet you will need to select one of the
>> tcp/ip channels at configure time.
>> I suggest adding the following `--with-device=ch3:nemesis'
>>
>> If you intend to use shared memory only, you can build using our
>> default channel but you are required to have the infiniband devel
>> packages installed for the build to complete successfully.
>>
>> You can find more information in our userguide:
>> http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/support/user_guide_mvapich2-2.0b.html
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:22 AM, David Race
>>
>> <david.race at daviddenisefamily.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have started building mvapich2-2.0b on a ethernet only system that uses
>> > SLURM as the resource manager.  I am using
>> >
>> > ./configure --disable-romio --with-slurm=/opt/slurm/default --with-pm=no
>> > --
>> > with-pmi=slurm
>> >
>> > I get the following error:
>> >
>> > checking for size of MPI_Status... configure: error: unable to compute
>> > status size, are you compiling on a non-2s-complement host?
>> >
>> > This is an intel processor, so the error message doesn't seem correct.  I
>> > haven't started the detailed debugging yet.
>> >
>> > Has anyone see this error?
>> >
>> > Best Regards
>> >
>> > David Race
>> >
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>
>



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