I have solved the problem...I guess. If one looks back through this thread, one will observe that one of the initial errors I was receiving was the following:
stderr logs bash: /data/disk2/hadoop/mapred/local/taskTracker/archive/mainclusternn.hipods.ihost.com/uwphysics/kwiley/mosaic/c++_bin/Mosaic/Mosaic: cannot execute binary file I had misinterpreted this as an indication that the file did not have executable permissions. This misinterpretation was exacerbated by the observation that I could not set executable permissions on an HDFS file so files in HDFS really truly are nonexecutable. However, it turns out that this is okay because the Pipes library enables executable permissions before running a binary. The symptom nevertheless suggested my initial interpretation, that this was a file permissions problem. The error I was receiving above was not a file permissions problem, it was an architecture mismatch between the binary and the cluster nodes. A tremendously labored quest has converged on a delicate build configuration which, for the time being, seems to work. I'm still trying to find a way to build the binary on my Mac instead of logging into some remote Linux machine. I ought to be able to build a binary on the Mac that runs on a Linux cluster if I use the right flags and link against the right libraries, but so far I've had no success on that front. Thanks for you help. Cheers! ________________________________________________________________________________ Keith Wiley kwi...@keithwiley.com www.keithwiley.com "What I primarily learned in grad school is how much I *don't* know. Consequently, I left grad school with a higher ignorance to knowledge ratio than when I entered." -- Keith Wiley ________________________________________________________________________________
