I'm trying to build the foss-2019a toolchain with EB 3.8.1 on a new
Intel Skylake node (40 cores + hyperthreading = 80 cores) but it fails
in binutils-2.31.1.eb as shown below. I've tried to increase some
system limits, but that doesn't seem to help. My current limits are:
$ ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) 50000000
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 3088986
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size (kbytes, -m) 50000000
open files (-n) 2500
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 40000000
cpu time (seconds, -t) 30000
max user processes (-u) 2000
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited
Output from the build process:
$ eb foss-2019a.eb -r
== temporary log file in case of crash /tmp/eb-dyNH9x/easybuild-u8cWAg.log
== resolving dependencies ...
== processing EasyBuild easyconfig
/home/modules/software/EasyBuild/3.8.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild_easyconfigs-3.8.1-py2.7.egg/easybuild/easyconfigs/b/binutils/binutils-2.31.1.eb
== building and installing binutils/2.31.1...
== fetching files...
== creating build dir, resetting environment...
== unpacking...
== patching...
== preparing...
== configuring...
== building...
== FAILED: Installation ended unsuccessfully (build directory:
/home/modules/build/binutils/2.31.1/dummy-): build failed (first 300
chars): cmd " env LIBS='-Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib64' make
-j 80 CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC" " exited with exit code 2 and output:
make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/modules/build/binutils/2.31.1/dummy-/binutils-2.31.1'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-target'.
Configuring in ./libiberty
Config
== Results of the build can be found in the log file(s)
/tmp/eb-dyNH9x/easybuild-binutils-2.31.1-20190220.140138.qdBpn.log
ERROR: Build of
/home/modules/software/EasyBuild/3.8.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easybuild_easyconfigs-3.8.1-py2.7.egg/easybuild/easyconfigs/b/binutils/binutils-2.31.1.eb
failed (err: 'build failed (first 300 chars): cmd " env
LIBS=\'-Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib64\' make -j 80
CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC" " exited with exit code 2 and output:\nmake[1]:
Entering directory
`/home/modules/build/binutils/2.31.1/dummy-/binutils-2.31.1\'\nmake[1]:
Nothing to be done for `all-target\'.\nConfiguring in ./libiberty\nConfig')
Can anyone help me fix this issue?
Thanks,
Ole
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Ole Holm Nielsen
PhD, Senior HPC Officer
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark