[Difx-users] difx 2.4.1 compile error in Mark5B+ "configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables"

[Walter Brisken]

Good call on the compiler being an issue.

It could be g++ itself, or the MPI software (e.g., openmpi, with compiler 
called mpicxx) was not found.  openmpi is the most commonly used MPI 
package with DiFX.

-W

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Jay Blanchard wrote:

> Are you sure you have g++ installed?
> I think it's in package build-essential in debian...
>
> On 10 July 2017 at 13:30, Jongsoo Kim <jskim at kasi.re.kr> wrote:
>
>> Dear DIFX users,
>>
>> I am trying to install DiFX 2.4.1 in a MarkB+ in order to do remote
>> distributed correlation using the native mode of Mark5 for the KVN
>> observations.   The installation options are as follows,
>>
>> ./install-difx --noipp --nodoc --mk5daemon
>>
>> The above commend compiles packages of "difxio", "difxmessages", and
>> "mark5access" without any problems.  But it generates the attached error
>> message when it comes to the mpifxcorr package.
>>
>> The Mark5B+ system has Debian Wheezy 32bit OS.  The output of "uname -a"
>> is as follows.
>>
>> 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Sep 23 23:00:18 UTC 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
>>
>> Most of the Debian packages required for the difx described in the difx
>> web site were installed except openmpi.
>>
>>    - pkg-config
>>    - bison
>>    - flex
>>    - libexpat1-dev
>>    - fftw3-dev
>>    - autoconf
>>    - automake
>>    - libtool
>>    - gfortran
>>
>> The openmpi 1.10.2 was manually installed with --enable-heterogeneous.
>> Do you have any idea to sort out the problem that I have?
>>
>> I have the other question. Is there any body who tried the native
>> correlation with Mark5B+, whose OS is the 64bit one?  If any, please tell
>> me your successful (or unsuccessful) story to me.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jongsoo
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Making mpifxcorr
>>
>>
>> Reconfiguring mpifxcorr
>>
>> configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: Adam Deller <
>> adeller at astro.swin.edu.au>
>>
>> configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: Adam Deller <
>> adeller at astro.swin.edu.au>
>>
>> configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: Adam Deller <
>> adeller at astro.swin.edu.au>
>>
>> configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: Adam Deller <
>> adeller at astro.swin.edu.au>
>>
>> configure.ac:5: installing `./install-sh'
>>
>> configure.ac:5: installing `./missing'
>>
>> src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
>>
>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>
>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>
>> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
>>
>> checking for gawk... gawk
>>
>> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>
>> checking whether the C++ compiler works... no
>>
>> configure: error: in `/root/DiFX-2.4.1/mpifxcorr':
>>
>> configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
>>
>> See `config.log' for more details
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>
>>   File "./install-difx", line 667, in <module>
>>
>>     run(configstring)
>>
>>   File "./install-difx", line 353, in run
>>
>>     raise RuntimeError, "Error running " + cmd + " in " + os.getcwd()
>>
>> RuntimeError: Error running ./configure CXX=/opt/openmpi-1.10.2
>> --prefix=/opt/difx/2.4.1 in /root/DiFX-2.4.1/mpifxcorr
>>
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