hpc / hpc/libcircle

issue with finding MPI when building with spack

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Description

I'm getting a very strange issue when building with spack. It appears that configure finds MPI correctly, but then fails.

     77    checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
     78    checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... yes
     79    checking for /usr/local/bin/mpicc... /usr/local/bin/mpicc
     80    Checking whether /usr/local/bin/mpicc responds to '-showme:compile'.
           .. no
     81    Checking whether /usr/local/bin/mpicc responds to '-showme'... no
     82    Checking whether /usr/local/bin/mpicc responds to '-compile-info'...
            yes
  >> 83    configure: error: You should check to see if MPI is setup properly.

This does not happen when manually building libcircle. Does the build system properly detect the MPI that spack passes, or does it rely on hard coded paths?

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Start with the configure step that checks /usr/local/bin/mpicc, then compare the Spack build invocation with a manual libcircle build. Done means configure accepts the MPI compiler and the Spack build proceeds without the MPI setup error.

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c
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build-system
Issue type
Bug
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Estimated time
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