[Users] Help w/ MPI link errors

Thomas Radke tradke at aei.mpg.de
Mon Feb 19 03:49:04 CST 2007


Ian Hawke wrote:
> Scott Hawley wrote:
> 
>>Hi. I'm having a bunch of errors when I try to link Cactus on my new  
>>machine.  It's running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.  I think there's  
>>something wrong with my installation of MPI, (LAM 7.1.2/MPI 2 ), but  
>>I'm not sure what it is.
> 
> 
> MPICH2 is not supported by default the last time I checked; Steve White 
> did send a patch at one point (see
> http://www.cactuscode.org/pipermail/users/2006-April/001799.html
> ) but I don't think it was ever committed. I did try the patch at one 
> point and it did work (modulo a minor change as I'd built MPICH2 with 
> pthreads, so I had to add extra libraries).
> 
> Steve, do you remember this?

Steve's patch was about MPICH.

 From what I see in Scott's SILENT=no output, his problem is a wrong 
order of LAM libs: lammpi++ should appear _before_ anything else.

I just fixed it, please update from CVS and try again.

-- 
Cheers, Thomas.


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