openMPI port fails to build

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 16, 2009, at 12:29, MD White wrote:

> I am trying to build the openMPI port and it is failing.  When I  
> run with the debug mode on, I see that it has errors with
> "Making all in tools/orte-iof"
> it is listing undefined symbols:
> "_orte_iof" referenced from:
>   _orte_iof$non_lazy_ptr in orte_iof.o
> and
>  "_orte_routed", referenced from:
>   _orte_routed$non_lazy_ptr in libopen-rte.a (hnp_contact.o)
>   _orte_routed$non_lazy_ptr in libopen-rte.a (rml_base_contact.o)
>
> Now, I had an earlier failure because I had a version of ifort that  
> no longer works (I only had a 30 day test license at one point).   
> The strange thing there is that when it complained about this  
> message the checks read:
> *** Fortran 77 compiler
> checking for gfortran... no
> checking for g77... no
> checking for f77... no
> checking for xlf... no
> checking for frt... no
> checking for ifort... ifort
> checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
> checking whether ifort accepts -g... no
> checking if Fortran 77 compiler works... no
>
> I do, however have g77 (v 3.4.0) installed in /usr/local/bin/g77

It is not supported to have anything installed in /usr/local while  
using MacPorts because MacPorts ports may automatically find such  
software in /usr/local and disrupt your build.


> and I have gfortran-mp-4.3 installed (as well as g95).  Apparently  
> the verbose and debug flags do not normally list these checks, as  
> this message went away when I removed ifort from my path.  I have  
> no idea which fortran the script ultimately finds, but it appears  
> to be using /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 to compile this port, so if it is  
> finding gfortran 4.3, could that be part of the problem?
>
> I also notice that I must have some version of openmpi installed  
> already (with the developer's tools?).  When I type:
>    mpicc --version
> I get:
>   i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5488)
> but if I try this with mpif77 or mpif90, I get a message  
> "Unfortunately, this installation of Open MPI was not compiled with  
> Fortran 77[90] support. As such, the mpif77[mpif90] compiler is non- 
> functional."
>
> I was able to install mpich2 without any (apparent) problems - but  
> I need openmpi for PETsc.
>
> I am running OS 10.5.6 and have Xcode 3.1.1 installed.