Re: [Boost-build] Compiling Boost.MPI and mpich2 under Suse Linux

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Compiling Boost.MPI and mpich2 under Suse Linux
From: Michael1984 (m.auli_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-28 14:10:19

The reason why bjam used mpich2 and not mpich was because I still had
mpich2/bin in the path (just after mpich). I suspect that bjam just cannot
use mpich to build mpi because there is not mpicxx in mpich/bin....

Michael1984 wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, ./bjam link=static gives me the same error:
> 
> gcc.link.dll
> bin.v2/libs/mpi/build/gcc-4.3/release/threading-multi/libboost_mpi.so.1.43.0
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
> /mnt/thor2/michael/tools/mpich2/lib/libmpich.a(attr_get.o): relocation
> R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared
> object; recompile with -fPIC
> /mnt/thor2/michael/tools/mpich2/lib/libmpich.a: could not read symbols:
> Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> So it's still building dynamic libraries - I don't understand.
> 
> 
> Belcourt, Kenneth wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On May 28, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Michael1984 wrote:
>> 
>>> I googled now for a while but could not figure out how to build boost
>>> as an archive - can you please give me a hint?
>> 
>> bjam link=static ...
>> 
>> should do it.
>> 
>>> The error messages I quoted previously were still with MPICH2 as I
>>> could not get MPICH to work: Building it works all fine but when  
>>> trying
>>> to execute bin/mpicc I get the following:
>>>
>>> $/bin/mpicc
>>> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In  
>>> function
>>> `_start':
>>> (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> 
>> That's weird, did you install your build of MPICH2 into the /bin  
>> directory or is there an pre-installed version on your system?
>> 
>> -- Noel
>> 
>> 
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