To be thorough couldn't one replace -pthread in the slurm .la files with -lpthread? I ran into this last week and this was the solution I was thinking about implementing. Having said that, I can't think of a situation in which the -pthread/-lpthread argument would be required other than linking against statically compiled SLURM libraries and even then I'm not so sure about that.

-Aaron

On 4/3/17 1:46 PM, Åke Sandgren wrote:
We build slurm with GCC, drop the -pthread arg in the .la files, and
have never seen any problems related to that. And we do build quite a
lot of code. And lots of versions of OpenMPI with multiple different
compilers (and versions).

On 04/03/2017 04:51 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
This is the second suggestion to rebuild Slurm

The  other from Åke Sandgren, who recommended this:

This usually comes from slurm, so we always do

perl -pi -e 's/-pthread//' /lap/slurm/${version}/lib/libpmi.la
/lap/slurm/${version}/lib/libslurm.la

when installing a new slurm version. Thus no need for a fakepg wrapper.

I don't really have the luxury to rebuild Slurm at the moment. How would
I rebuild Slurm to change this behavior? Is rebuilding Slurm with PGI
the only option to fix this in slurm, or use Åke's suggestion above?

If I did use Åke's suggestion above, how would that affect the operation
of Slurm, or future builds of OpenMPI and any other software that might
rely on Slurm, particulary with regards to building those apps with
non-PGI compilers?

Prentice

On 04/03/2017 10:31 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet wrote:
Hi,

The -pthread flag is likely pulled by libtool from the slurm libmpi.la
<http://libmpi.la> and/or libslurm.la <http://libslurm.la>
Workarounds are
- rebuild slurm with PGI
- remove the .la files (*.so and/or *.a are enough)
- wrap the PGI compiler to ignore the -pthread option

Hope this helps

Gilles

On Monday, April 3, 2017, Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov
<mailto:pbis...@pppl.gov>> wrote:

    Greeting Open MPI users! After being off this list for several
    years, I'm back! And I need help:

    I'm trying to compile OpenMPI 1.10.3 with the PGI compilers,
    version 17.3. I'm using the following configure options:

    ./configure \
      --prefix=/usr/pppl/pgi/17.3-pkgs/openmpi-1.10.3 \
      --disable-silent-rules \
      --enable-shared \
      --enable-static \
      --enable-mpi-thread-multiple \
      --with-pmi=/usr/pppl/slurm/15.08.8 \
      --with-hwloc \
      --with-verbs \
      --with-slurm \
      --with-psm \
      CC=pgcc \
      CFLAGS="-tp x64 -fast" \
      CXX=pgc++ \
      CXXFLAGS="-tp x64 -fast" \
      FC=pgfortran \
      FCFLAGS="-tp x64 -fast" \
      2>&1 | tee configure.log

    Which leads to this error  from libtool during make:

    pgcc-Error-Unknown switch: -pthread

    I've searched the archives, which ultimately lead to this work
    around from 2009:

    https://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2009/04/8724.php
    <https://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2009/04/8724.php>

    Interestingly, I participated in the discussion that lead to that
    workaround, stating that I had no problem compiling Open MPI with
    PGI v9. I'm assuming the problem now is that I'm specifying
    --enable-mpi-thread-multiple, which I'm doing because a user
    requested that feature.

    It's been exactly 8 years and 2 days since that workaround was
    posted to the list. Please tell me a better way of dealing with
    this issue than writing a 'fakepgf90' script. Any suggestions?


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