Hi Barry and Philipp, > Philipp is correct, multi-threaded moses is unlikely to work with randlm since > the latter uses a (presumably) non-thread-safe cache.
Darn, RandLM would be really useful together with threading because our cluster has low memory machines with 8 processors. David or Miles, any chance I could convince you to fix this soon? > As regards the compile error, this is due to a recent change in the mbr code, > and the fact that we don't have a regression test to pick it up. I should be > able to fix the compile error fairly quickly, but at the moment I'm not sure > what to do about the regression test. Ideally I'd like to get rid of the > separate main for mosesmt, although we'd still have to have compiler switches > which would leave us open to these issues. > > If you roll back to 2636 then mosesmt should compile fine. It compiles for me without RandLM fine. BTW, it would be cool to stick something about -threads in the moses usage when compiled with threads. > You mentioned some "weird use of -DWITH_THREADS" - do you mean the failure of > (eg) the test of Ngram.h ? I think this is due to a different problem with > configure.ac, which would explain why I keep seeing errors like "WARNING: > Ngram.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor!" ! Ngram.h always fails for me (regardless of whether using threads or not), there is something that causes it to try to invoke a null command: configure:5997: checking Ngram.h presence configure:6012: -I/home/users6/fraser/statmt/srilm-1.5.7/include conftest.cpp ./configure: line 6014: -I/home/users6/fraser/statmt/srilm-1.5.7/include: No such file or directory The -DWITH_THREADS thing causes other things to fail (only when building with threads), such as getopt.h. These failures make no difference, since all of the things that fail get something like: configure:6537: WARNING: getopt.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor! configure:6539: WARNING: getopt.h: proceeding with the compiler's result See the config.log I posted on my previous message (or let me know if I should send you a copy directly) for more examples. Cheers, Alex > > cheers > Barry > > On Wednesday 16 December 2009 16:28, Alexander Fraser wrote: >> Hi Barry and other folks, >> >> I'm also having trouble compiling Moses with threads and RandLM, there >> seems to be a bug in MainMT.cpp ? >> >> Here is what I am doing: >> >> Get fresh copy of Moses (I did this on Monday night). >> >> ./regenerate-makefiles.sh >> ./configure --enable-threads >> --with-srilm=/home/users6/fraser/statmt/srilm-1.5.7 >> --with-randlm=/home/users6/fraser/statmt/randlm-v0.11 >> --with-boost=/home/users6/fraser --with-boost-thread=boost_thread >> make >> >> (The last argument --with-boost-thread is necessary to stop it from >> picking up the globally installed boost thread library). >> >> I attach config.log, which makes it through fine (though I think there >> is some weird use of -DWITH_THREADS in there which might be >> interesting). >> >> I also attach make.log (which only contains the compilation error, I >> typed make twice). >> >> Let me know if I can provide any more info. >> >> Thanks a lot for your help! >> >> Cheers, Alex > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list Moses-support@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
