On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 13:02 +0000, michael wrote:
Folks - this is essentially a question of how to install Intel
compilers on a Debian box, something I would think is solved but...
Um, no, I doubt it is solved. AFAIK, Intel does not
officially support Debian.
I have just installed 'testing' on my dual Xeon. I downloaded a
suitable SMP kernel from backports. Thus I have:
m@r:~/src/netcdf-3_6_0-beta6/src$ uname -a
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
I need to use the Intel compilers. (I should add that I've not had
any of the below problems when I installed the Intel C/C++ and
Fortran compilers on a RedHat box.) I followed Intel's instructions
as per their "Platform Notes: Using Intel C++ Compiler on
Unsupported Operating Systems". (This was essentially using 'alien'
to convert rpm->deb, then dpkg and then sed INSTALLDIR to the name
of the actual install directory for all .sh scripts)
Things looked fine. I compiled up 'mpich' and have used.
Personally, I haven't had much luck with the alien conversion
working properly. I don't think it's so much a problem with
alien as it is with the way the Intel installation scripts work.
I'm doing this from memory, so it may be not quite right, but
I've found the most reliable way of installing the Intel compilers
to be this:
-- 'apt-get install rpm' and then 'rpm -initdb' so that
rpm thinks it's behaving properly.
-- untar the Intel stuff.
-- fix install.sh. There's a test in the script (RPM_NOT_FOUND?)
that relies on 'rpm -qa' working in a way that is, um, highly
unlikely to work on Debian systems. If you run ./install.sh
it'll pop out a message about this being an unsupported install
that's pretty easy to find in the script. If you comment out
the test that causes that message to be displayed (it's in one
small shell function that I don't recall the name of), the
install will work just fine.
It seems that whenever I've done the install any other way, I've ended
up with the problems you note -- the compiler not being able to find
header files and such.
Hope this helps...
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Help!
Thanks, Michael, Atmospheric Physics Group, Univ of Manchester (UK)