[mvapich-discuss] Cannot build MVAPICH 2.3.4 from source: helper_fns.h not found

[Subramoni, Hari]

Hi, Leo.

The ch3:nemesis branch has been deprecated. Please use the ch3:mrail branch. For running on GPUs, we strongly recommend using MVAPICH2-GDR for best performance and scalability. This is even true if it is a single node system since MVAPICH2-GDR has a lot of advanced support for intra-node point-to-point and collective communication.

The error with scanner.c is because lex/yacc is not present on your system. Another user reported this on discuss and we will be resolving this with the next release.

Best,
Hari.

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Subject: [mvapich-discuss] Cannot build MVAPICH 2.3.4 from source: helper_fns.h not found

Hello,


I tried to build MVAPICH 2.3.4 from source with the following command:

./configure --enable-cuda --prefix=/home/leofang/.mvapich2-2.3.4_cuda --with-device=ch3:nemesis --with-pm=hydra

But the build failed with "fatal error: helper_fns.h: No such file or directory” when compiling source codes from src/mpi/coll/. Occasionally the error is: "error: src/pm/mpirun/src/hostfile/scanner.c: No such file or directory”, but it’s not always reproducible.

The machine I’m on has no infiniband or any high-speed network or job scheduler, just an isolated test node with GPUs.

I had a vague impression that this worked in the past versions, but I am not 100% sure about the build command I used. Also, with a quick search I found helper_fns.h is newly added in 2.3.4: https://fossies.org/diffs/mvapich2/2.3.3_vs_2.3.4/index.html<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/fossies.org/diffs/mvapich2/2.3.3_vs_2.3.4/index.html__;!!KGKeukY!hmScmeImOTuuWL8EW62m9cvsuaf3mYaLrA4dqZr4GdDngv87DPvlXZgSc4YaRRCR33t_vGAmD9KRF4Q$>. Could it be that the configure script failed to copy it to the build path in certain cases?

Thanks.


Sincerely,
Leo

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