[buildd-tools-devel] running mpi in sbuild (petsc testing)

[Christophe Trophime]

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Drew Parsons" <dparsons at debian.org>
> À: "Johannes Ring" <johannr at simula.no>, debian-science at lists.debian.org
> Cc: buildd-tools-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Envoyé: Vendredi 9 Octobre 2015 11:55:34
> Objet: Re: running mpi in sbuild (petsc testing)
> 
> On Fri, 2015-10-09 at 07:01 +0000, Johannes Ring wrote:
> > I guess this is the same problem I have when building DOLFIN in
> > pbuilder, which I solve by adding "export
> > OMPI_MCA_plm_rsh_agent=/bin/false" in debian/rules.
> 
> 
> Thanks Johannes, that more or less gets it running.  It gives a warning
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> A deprecated MCA parameter value was specified in the environment or
> on the command line.  Deprecated MCA parameters should be avoided;
> they may disappear in future releases.
> 
>   Deprecated parameter: plm_rsh_agent
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> but otherwise the test runs fine.
> 
> There's a suggestion at
>  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-science-commits/2014-J
> anuary/024112.html
> that we should use OMPI_MCA_plm_orte_agent instead.  But when I use
> that, I get the same test error that I got without the variable.
> 
> Drew
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 5:24 AM Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > p.s. an example of the test failure is:
> > > 
> > > [schumann:13424] [[INVALID],INVALID] ORTE_ERROR_LOG: Not found in
> > > file ess_hnp_module.c at line 170
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > ---------
> > > It looks like orte_init failed for some reason; your parallel
> > > process is
> > > likely to abort.  There are many reasons that a parallel process
> > > can
> > > fail during orte_init; some of which are due to configuration or
> > > environment problems.  This failure appears to be an internal
> > > failure;
> > > here's some additional information (which may only be relevant to
> > > an
> > > Open MPI developer):
> > > 
> > >   orte_plm_base_select failed
> > >   --> Returned value Not found (-13) instead of ORTE_SUCCESS
> 
> 

Hi,
It seems that running the tests with make check requires that the library is splitted
into several smaller libs. You can achieve this by simply add : --with-single-library=0
to the configure step.