Linking issue when using 2023.2.1 and mvapich/3.0b

[vanderwb]

I am currently trying to test out the mvapich/3.0b beta version of that MPI library. The MPI library itself builds just fine with OneAPI 2023.2.1, but then when trying to configure the parallel-netcdf/1.12.3 library using this stack, I get the following linker error which I don't know what to do with:

configure:33518: checking if Fortran "integer*1" is
configure:33528: /glade/work/csgteam/spack-deployments/derecho/23.09/envs/build/opt/__spack_path_placeholder__/__spack_path_placeholder__/__spack/mvapich/3.0b/oneapi/2023.2.1/i6ow/bin/mpicc -c -O2 conftest.c
configure:33531: $? = 0
configure:33534: /glade/work/csgteam/spack-deployments/derecho/23.09/envs/build/opt/__spack_path_placeholder__/__spack_path_placeholder__/__spack/mvapich/3.0b/oneapi/2023.2.1/i6ow/bin/mpif90 -g -c conftestf.f
configure:33537: $? = 0
configure:33540: /glade/work/csgteam/spack-deployments/derecho/23.09/envs/build/opt/__spack_path_placeholder__/__spack_path_placeholder__/__spack/mvapich/3.0b/oneapi/2023.2.1/i6ow/bin/mpif90 -o conftest -g conftestf.o conftest.o
ifort: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-rpath'
ld: error: Failed to get a view of /glade/work/csgteam/spack-deployments/derecho/23.09/envs/build/opt/__spack_path_placeholder__/__spack_path_placeholder__/__spack/mvapich/3.0b/oneapi/2023.2.1/i6ow/lib
ld: /glade/u/apps/common/23.08/spack/opt/spack/intel-oneapi-compilers/2023.2.1/compiler/2023.2.1/linux/bin/intel64/../../bin/intel64/../../lib/icx-lto.so: plugin reported error claiming file
configure:33543: $? = 1
configure:33563: error: Could not link conftestf.o and conftest.o  

All of this is being installed using Spack. Other details relevant:

1. Building in a SLES 15 environment.
2. OS has binutils 2.37.
3. Using icx, icpx, and ifort.
4. Building on a Lustre file system, though compiler is on GPFS.

Any thoughts on what the issue may be? The only thing I found online was this comment in a RHEL bug thread for LLVM, but not sure how its getting triggered here... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1954375#c5

Thanks in advance!

-Brian

[Barbara_P_Intel]

Have you tried compiling with ifx, instead of, ifort?

[vanderwb]

Hi Barbara,

Thanks for the reply. Yes - I have tried that, and it fails on the same configure test for parallel-netcdf. The error message is a bit different, but I assume it's the same fundamental issue.

configure:33789: /glade/derecho/scratch/vanderwb/spack-tests/derecho/23.09/envs/build/opt/__spack_path_placeholder__/__spack_path_placeholder__/_/mvapich/3.0b/oneapi/2023.2.1/i6ow/bin/mpif90
 -o conftest -fPIC  conftestf.o conftest.o
ifx: command line warning #10006: ignoring unknown option '-rpath'
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: read in flex scanner failed
configure:33792: $? = 1
configure:33812: error: Could not link conftestf.o and conftest.o

Regards,

Brian

[Barbara_P_Intel]

I just remembered that there's a known issue with certain versions of configure. See the Fortran Release Notes, search for "Configure Script Reports". 

It's not quite the error you are seeing, but might be worth a shot.

[vanderwb · Accepted solution]

That configure issue was unrelated. That said, I'm happy to report that this issue, whatever it is, has gone away in the 2024.0.0 release.

[Barbara_P_Intel]

YAY!  Thanks for letting us know!