[Pw_forum] Configuration script bound to fail on IBM SP?

[Eyvaz Isaev]

Hi,

Recently using "configure_old ibmsp" I compiled
espresso 2.1.1 successfully on SP2 and without any
troubles. 

Bests,
Eyvaz.
 
--- Serge Nakhmanson <nakhmans at physics.rutgers.edu>
wrote:

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> Dear PWscf team,
> 
> I am configuring espresso 2.1.2 on two different IBM
> SP machines (one SP3
> and one SP4) and in both cases the configure script
> produces the following
> complaint:
> 
> configure:1622: checking for Fortran 77 compiler
> default output file name
> configure:1625: mpxlf90_r   conftest.f  >&5
> ** main   === End of Compilation 1 ===
> 1501-510  Compilation successful for file
> conftest.f.
> configure:1628: $? = 0
> configure:1674: result: a.out
> configure:1679: checking whether the Fortran 77
> compiler works
> configure:1685: ./a.out
> ERROR: 0031-808  Hostfile or pool must be used to
> request nodes
> configure:1688: $? = 255
> configure:1695: error: cannot run Fortran 77
> compiled programs.
> 
> As I understand this, the configuration tool
> compiles a small sample
> piece of Fortran code with an MPI AIX Fortran
> compiler (mpxlf90_r)
> and then tries to run it to see if it works.
> However, most of the
> SP machines (the aforementioned two belong to the
> DoD) I've dealt with
> do not allow to run parallel codes interactively or
> at least not just
> as "./a.out"; you'll have to do something like
> "poe ./a.out -procs X -hostfile host.dat" if
> interactive runs are
> allowed, and this is what this error message is all
> about. In such
> a case the configuration script is kinda bound to
> fail.
> 
> I have already checked the most recent manual and
> the forum regarding
> this but only found mentions of this problem on PC
> Linux clusters
> with incorrectly installed compilers. However, I do
> believe that on
> the DoD SP machines the compilers are installed
> correctly. I would
> appreciate it if someone could let me know how I can
> work around
> this SP problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Serge
> 
> 
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