Very helpful, thanks.

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <
jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:

> Ok, thanks.  A few notes:
>
> 1. --enable-static implies --disable-dlopen.  Specifically:
> --enable-static does two things:
>
> 1a. Build libmpi.a (and friends)
> 1b. Slurp all the OMPI plugins into libmpi.a (and friends), vs. building
> them as standalone dynamic shared object (DSO) files (this is half of what
> --disable-dlopen does -- see #4, below).
>
> 2. If you read between the lines, you can also just --disable-dlopen
> without doing --enable-static, and you'll get a libmpi.so with all the OMPI
> plugins slurped up into the library (vs. being built as standalone DSOs).
>
> 3. --enable-shared is *not* implied by --enable-static.  So if you
> --enable-static without --disable-shared, you're building both libmpi.so
> and libmpi.a (both of which will have the plugins slurped up -- no DSOs).
>  Which is not a problem -- just wanted to make you aware of it.
>
> 4. And just so you're aware, --disable-dlopen actually does two things:
>
> 4a. slurp up the plugins, as mentioned above
> 4b. totally disable the dlopen code in OMPI, meaning that OMPI won't even
> try to open DSOs
>
> I doubt any of this really matters to the issues you're seeing; I just
> wanted to explain these options because I saw several of them mentioned in
> your mails.
>
>
> On Jan 17, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Ronald Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, I've just gotten an email with some suggestions (and promise of
> more help) from the HDF5 support team.   I will report back here, as it may
> be of interest to others trying to build hdf5 on mavericks.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
> > Afraid I have no idea, but hopefully someone else here with experience
> with HDF5 can chime in?
> >
> >
> > On Jan 17, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Ronald Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >> Still a timely response, thank you.    The particular problem I noted
> hasn't recurred; for reasons I will explain shortly I had to rebuild
> openmpi again, and this time Sample_mpio.c compiled and ran successfully
> from the start.
> >>
> >> But now my problem is trying to get parallel HDF5 to run.  In my first
> attempt to build HDF5 it failed in the load stage because of unsatisifed
> externals from openmpi, and I deduced the problem was having built openmpi
> with --disable-static.   So I rebuilt with --enable-static and
> --disable-dlopen (emulating a successful openmpi + hdf5 combination I had
> built on Snow Leopard).   Once again openmpi passed its make check's, and
> as noted above the Sample_mpio.c test compiled and ran fine.   And the
> parallel hdf5 configure and make steps ran successfully.   But when I ran
> make check for hdf5, the serial tests passed but none of the parallel tests
> did.  Over a million test failures!  Error messages like:
> >>
> >> Proc 0: *** MPIO File size range test...
> >> --------------------------------
> >> MPI_Offset is signed 8 bytes integeral type
> >> MPIO GB file write test MPItest.h5
> >> MPIO GB file write test MPItest.h5
> >> MPIO GB file write test MPItest.h5
> >> MPIO GB file write test MPItest.h5
> >> MPIO GB file write test MPItest.h5
> >> MPIO GB file write test MPItest.h5
> >> MPIO GB file read test MPItest.h5
> >> MPIO GB file read test MPItest.h5
> >> MPIO GB file read test MPItest.h5
> >> MPIO GB file read test MPItest.h5
> >> proc 3: found data error at [2141192192+0], expect -6, got 5
> >> proc 3: found data error at [2141192192+1], expect -6, got 5
> >>
> >> And -- the specific errors reported, which processor, which location,
> and the total number of errors changes if I rerun make check.
> >>
> >> I've sent configure, make and make check logs to the HDF5 help desk but
> haven't gotten a response.
> >>
> >> I am now configuring openmpi (still 1.7.4rc1) with:
> >>
> >> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/openmpi CC=gcc CXX=g++ FC=gfortran
> F77=gfortran --enable-static --with-pic --disable-dlopen
> --enable-mpirun-prefix-by-default
> >>
> >> and configuring HDF5 (version 1.8.12) with:
> >>
> >> configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5/par CC=mpicc CFLAGS=-fPIC FC=mpif90
> FCFLAGS=-fPIC CXX=mpicxx CXXFLAGS=-fPIC --enable-parallel --enable-fortran
> >>
> >> This is the combination that worked for me with Snow Leopard (though it
> was then earlier versions of both openmpi and hdf5.)
> >>
> >> If it matters, the gcc is the stock one with Mavericks' XCode, and
> gfortran is 4.9.0.
> >>
> >> (I just noticed that the mpi fortran wrapper is now mpifort, but I also
> see that mpif90 is still there and is a just link to mpifort.)
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
> wrote:
> >> sorry for delayed response - just getting back from travel. I don't
> know why you would get that behavior other than a race condition. Afraid
> that code path is foreign to me, but perhaps one of the folks in the MPI-IO
> area can respond
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 15, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Ronald Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Update: I reconfigured with enable_io_romio=yes, and this time --
> mostly -- the test using Sample_mpio.c  passes.   Oddly the very first time
> I tried I got errors:
> >>>
> >>> % mpirun -np 2 sampleio
> >>> Proc 1: hostname=Ron-Cohen-MBP.local
> >>> Testing simple C MPIO program with 2 processes accessing file
> ./mpitest.data
> >>>     (Filename can be specified via program argument)
> >>> Proc 0: hostname=Ron-Cohen-MBP.local
> >>> Proc 1: read data[0:1] got 0, expect 1
> >>> Proc 1: read data[0:2] got 0, expect 2
> >>> Proc 1: read data[0:3] got 0, expect 3
> >>> Proc 1: read data[0:4] got 0, expect 4
> >>> Proc 1: read data[0:5] got 0, expect 5
> >>> Proc 1: read data[0:6] got 0, expect 6
> >>> Proc 1: read data[0:7] got 0, expect 7
> >>> Proc 1: read data[0:8] got 0, expect 8
> >>> Proc 1: read data[0:9] got 0, expect 9
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:0] got 0, expect 10
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:1] got 0, expect 11
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:2] got 0, expect 12
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:3] got 0, expect 13
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:4] got 0, expect 14
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:5] got 0, expect 15
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:6] got 0, expect 16
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:7] got 0, expect 17
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:8] got 0, expect 18
> >>> Proc 1: read data[1:9] got 0, expect 19
> >>>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> MPI_ABORT was invoked on rank 1 in communicator MPI_COMM_WORLD
> >>> with errorcode 1.
> >>>
> >>> But when I reran the same mpirun command, the test was successful.
> And deleting the executable and recompiling and then again running the same
> mpirun command, the test was successful.   Can someone explain that?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Ronald Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov> wrote:
> >>> Aha.   I guess I didn't know what the io-romio option does.   If you
> look at my config.log you will see my configure line included
> --disable-io-romio.    Guess I should change --disable to --enable.
> >>>
> >>> You seem to imply that the nightly build is stable enough that I
> should probably switch to that rather than 1.7.4rc1.   Am I reading between
> the lines correctly?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
> wrote:
> >>> Oh, a word of caution on those config params - you might need to check
> to ensure I don't disable romio in them. I don't normally build it as I
> don't use it. Since that is what you are trying to use, just change the
> "no" to "yes" (or delete that line altogether) and it will build.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
> wrote:
> >>> You can find my configure options in the OMPI distribution at
> contrib/platform/intel/bend/mac. You are welcome to use them - just
> configure --with-platform=intel/bend/mac
> >>>
> >>> I work on the developer's trunk, of course, but also run the head of
> the 1.7.4 branch (essentially the nightly tarball) on a fairly regular
> basis.
> >>>
> >>> As for the opal_bitmap test: it wouldn't surprise me if that one was
> stale. I can check on it later tonight, but I'd suspect that the test is
> bad as we use that class in the code base and haven't seen an issue.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Ronald Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov>
> wrote:
> >>> Ralph,
> >>>
> >>> I just sent out another post with the c file attached.
> >>>
> >>> If you can get that to work, and even if you can't can you tell me
> what configure options you use, and what version of open-mpi?   Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Ron
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
> wrote:
> >>> BTW: could you send me your sample test code?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>
> wrote:
> >>> I regularly build on Mavericks and run without problem, though I
> haven't tried a parallel IO app. I'll give yours a try later, when I get
> back to my Mac.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Ronald Cohen <rhco...@lbl.gov>
> wrote:
> >>> I have been struggling trying to get a usable build of openmpi on Mac
> OSX Mavericks (10.9.1).  I can get openmpi to configure and build without
> error, but have problems after that which depend on the openmpi version.
> >>>
> >>> With 1.6.5, make check fails the opal_datatype_test, ddt_test, and
> ddt_raw tests.  The various atomic_* tests pass.    See checklogs_1.6.5,
> attached as a .gz file.
> >>>
> >>> Following suggestions from openmpi discussions I tried openmpi version
> 1.7.4rc1.  In this case make check indicates all tests passed.  But when I
> proceeded to try to build a parallel code (parallel HDF5) it failed.
>  Following an email exchange with the HDF5 support people, they suggested I
> try to compile and run the attached bit of simple code Sample_mpio.c (which
> they supplied) which does not use any HDF5, but just attempts a parallel
> write to a  file and parallel read.   That test failed when requesting more
> than 1 processor -- which they say indicates a failure of the openmpi
> installation.   The error message was:
> >>>
> >>> MPI_INIT: argc 1
> >>> MPI_INIT: argc 1
> >>> Testing simple C MPIO program with 2 processes accessing file
> ./mpitest.data
> >>>     (Filename can be specified via program argument)
> >>> Proc 0: hostname=Ron-Cohen-MBP.local
> >>> Proc 1: hostname=Ron-Cohen-MBP.local
> >>> MPI_BARRIER[0]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD
> >>> MPI_BARRIER[1]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD
> >>> Proc 0: MPI_File_open with MPI_MODE_EXCL failed (MPI_ERR_FILE: invalid
> file)
> >>> MPI_ABORT[0]: comm MPI_COMM_WORLD errorcode 1
> >>> MPI_BCAST[1]: buffer 7fff5a483048 count 1 datatype MPI_INT root 0 comm
> MPI_COMM_WORLD
> >>>
> >>> I then went back to my openmpi directories and tried running some of
> the individual tests in the test and examples directories.  In particular
> in test/class I found one test that seem to not be run as part of make
> check which failed, even with one processor; this is opal_bitmap.  Not sure
> if this is because 1.7.4rc1 is incomplete, or there is something wrong with
> the installation, or maybe a 32 vs 64 bit thing?   The error message is
> >>>
> >>> mpirun detected that one or more processes exited with non-zero
> status, thus causing the job to be terminated. The first process to do so
> was:
> >>>
> >>>   Process name: [[48805,1],0]
> >>>   Exit code:    255
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions?
> >>>
> >>> More generally has anyone out there gotten an openmpi build on
> Mavericks to work with sufficient success that they can get the attached
> Sample_mpio.c (or better yet, parallel HDF5) to build?
> >>>
> >>> Details: Running Mac OS X 10.9.1 on a mid-2009 Macbook pro with 4 GB
> memory; tried openmpi 1.6.5 and 1.7.4rc1.  Built openmpi against the stock
> gcc that comes with XCode 5.0.2, and gfortran 4.9.0.
> >>>
> >>> Files attached: config.log.gz, openmpialllog.gz (output of running
> ompi_info --all), checklog2.gz (output of make.check in top openmpi
> directory).
> >>>
> >>> I am not attaching logs of make and install since those seem to have
> been successful, but can generate those if that would be helpful.
> >>>
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