Re: [Boost-users] [mpi] building boost::mpi libs

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [mpi] building boost::mpi libs
From: James C. Sutherland (James.Sutherland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-10 13:23:42

On Aug 10, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> James C. Sutherland wrote:
>
>> I have successfully built the boost MPI libraries on my mac.  When
>> trying on Linux I am having problems with the compiler not including
>> the path for mpi.h.  For example, I get errors like:
>>
>>> gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/mpi/build/gcc-3.4.6/release/threading-
>>> multi/python/datatypes.o
>>> In file included from ./boost/mpi/python/config.hpp:15,
>>>                 from ./boost/mpi/python/serialize.hpp:23,
>>>                 from libs/mpi/src/python/datatypes.cpp:13:
>>> ./boost/mpi/config.hpp:20:17: mpi.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> I am not familiar with bjam.  My MPI installation is in a non- 
>> standard
>> location and I added
>>> using mpi : /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/sys/pkg/mpich2/std/bin/mpicxx ;
>>
>> to my user-config.jam file.
>>
>> How do I tell bjam to look somewhere special for the mpi headers?
>
> You should not need to -- the binary will be run with right options
> to discover that information. Can you:
>
> 1. Show the full compile command that fails?
> 2. Run with --debug-configuration and show the debug messages before
> actual build starts?
>
> - Volodya

Thank you for the suggestions.  This helped my find that our sysadmins  
had a broken soft link that was pointing to the wrong include  
directory.  After fixing that things worked fine.