> On Nov 24, 2014, at 3:45 AM, Wildes Andrew <andywil...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been trying to install OpenMPI (v. 1.8.3) on my mac (OS 10.6.8). I have > gcc in my path (v. 4.6.0). The ./configure routine finds it, but says that > it doesn't work. > > Looking through config.log (attached), I see that it's trying to access > 'conftest.c'. This file isn't found (it doesn't seem to be in the openmpi > compressed file, nor is it anywhere to be found elsewhere on my mac), and I > suspect that it's at this point that the compilation attempt terminates. > > I'm sorry to bother you with what is probably a trivial problem. Any help > would be greatly appreciated.
In looking through your log, there are a couple of things. Firstly, it complains that gcc can not create executables. Line 16: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Secondly, line 114: gcc: error trying to exec 'as': execvp: No such file or directory I'm thinking the first error is from stderr/stdout, while your config.log starts at line 25. Yes? So on OS X have you installed Xcode and all it's dependencies? Are you using MacPorts, HomeBrew or Fink? Or any other package manager? Are you able to compile anything? A simple (non-mpi) hello world or some such? The program `as` is an assembler (translates assembly code to object code). Hope this helps. Timothy
