Re: Fortran trouble
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:39 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:39:04PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > In an effort to finally complete the mpich transition, last night I
> > built and uploaded libf2c2 for arm (why it didn't autobuild is beyond
> > me), then tried to build scalapack. The build failed when trying to
> > link a binary:
> >
> > gcc -o /home/hazelsct/scalapack-1.7/TESTING/xigemr pigemrdrv.o
> > -L /home/hazelsct/scalapack-1.7 -lscalapack-lam -lblacsCinit-lam
> > -lblacs-lam -lblacsCinit-lam -lmpi -llapack -lblas -lf2c -lm
> > /usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnu/4.0.2/../../../libf2c.so: undefined reference
> > to `MAIN__'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[2]: *** [/home/hazelsct/scalapack-1.7/TESTING/xigemr] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hazelsct/scalapack-1.7/REDIST/TESTING'
> > make[1]: *** [redistexe] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hazelsct/scalapack-1.7'
> > make: *** [build-stamp-lam] Error 2
> >
> > PPC died in the same step with a different error, see
> > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=scalapack&ver=1.7-9&arch=powerpc&stamp=1125887722&file=log&as=raw
> >
> > Since this works on eight architectures, I suspect problems in the arm
> > and PPC toolchains. Any ideas?
>
> It seems gcc 4.x is much different in treatment of functions which are
> only called from assembly code. It seems to figure that if it sees
> nothing using the function (and it doesn't look in the inline assembly)
> then it can optimize it away. Then the linker of course whines about
> the function called from assembly doesn't exist anywhere.
>
> This hit mozilla and nvu on arm, among others. It is probably similar
> in this case.
>
> In mozilla's case it was fixed by adding a flag telling the compiler
> that the function is in fact used even if it appears not to be.
Thanks for the tip. Turns out libf2c is trying to link to a fortran
program, and this is a C program, so there never was a MAIN__(). It
looks like removing -lf2c fixes this (the compilation works fine), so
I'm attempting a rebuild without it.
Hopefully this will get scalapack into testing, so a bunch of other
packages (mpich, petsc, netpipe, blacs etc.) can go in with it...
Thanks,
-Adam
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