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InterComm-1.6

InterComm-1.6 prerequisites

You must compile PVM before building InterComm-1.6. Click here for instructions on building PVM.

InterComm-1.6

1. Set the following three environment variables. You will need these when using PVM in the future, so you may want to add this to your .bashrc, .cshrc, etc.

   export PVM_ROOT=$INSTALL_DIR/pvm3
   export PVM_ARCH=XXX*
   export PVM_BIN=$PVM_ROOT/bin
   

   • To find the appropriate PVM_ARCH for your system, see what is in $PVM_ROOT/bin

     ls $PVM_ROOT/bin
     

     For an AIX system like Bluefire, set PVM_ARCH=AIX56K.
2. Download and extract source:

   cd $INSTALL_DIR/src
   wget http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hpsl/chaos/ResearchAreas/ic/dist/InterComm-1.6.tar.gz
   tar -zxvf InterComm-1.6.tar.gz
   

3. Configure, compile & install InterComm-1.6

   cd $INSTALL_DIR/src/InterComm-1.6
   ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR --with-ppp=$INSTALL_DIR/P++
   make
   make install
   

4. You are now ready to install the next prerequisite, Overture.

Developer website:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hpsl/chaos/ResearchAreas/ic/

Troubleshooting

• If the configure script is mysteriously failing, examine config.log for more information.
• If configure script in step 3 has trouble finding A+.h, make sure that you manually moved the A+ & P++ libraries to the proper place, as in step 5 of A++ and P++.
• When running the configure script, you get the error:

  ./configure: line 4334: syntax error near unexpected token `$f90_list'
  ./configure: line 4334: `  AC_PROG_F90($f90_list)'
  

  Solution: Comment out the line containing AC_PROG_F90
• When running the configure script, you get the error:

  ./configure: line 4482: syntax error near unexpected token `$mpicxx_list,'
  ./configure: line 4482: `  AC_PROG_MPICXX($mpicxx_list, $enable_tests)'
  

  Solution: Comment out any lines containing "AC_PROG_MPICXX"
• When building InterComm-1.6, you may get an error like:

  catastrophic error:
   #error directive: "SEEK_SET is #defined but must not be for the C++ binding of MPI"
   error "SEEK_SET is #defined but must not be for the C++ binding of MPI"
  

  Solution: add -DMPICH_IGNORE_CXX_SEEK and -DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX to the CPPFLAGS environment variable.
• When building InterComm-1.6, you may get an error like:

  catastrophic error: could not open source file "pvm3.h"
  

  Solution: Edit InterComm-1.6/src/Makefile, grep for -I/path/to/P++/include, and add -I/path/to/pvm3/include.
• I get an error about sys.h:

  IC_support.cc:34:23: fatal error: linux/sys.h: No such file or directory
  

  Solution: First, find where your sys.h is located

  locate sys.h | grep linux
  

  for example, mine is here: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-x86_64/include.  Then append an include flag to DEFAULT_INCLUDES in $INSTALL_DIR/src/InterComm-1.6/src/p++/Makefile, like so:

  DEFAULT_INCLUDES = -I. -I$(srcdir) -I$(top_builddir)/src -I$(top_builddir)/src -I$(top_builddir)/src/ext/mbp -I/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5-x86_64/include
  

  now try gmake again.