[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #2158: Without MPI installed, Cactus doesn't build

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#2158: Without MPI installed, Cactus doesn't build
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 Reporter:  Steven R. Brandt     |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new                  |   Priority:  unset
Milestone:                       |  Component:  Other
  Version:  development version  |   Keywords:
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 I attempted to test our automatic building of Cactus on a system without
 MPI installed. In principle, thorn MPI should build and the system should
 work. Instead, I get this:
 {{{
 MPI: Building...
 Making all in config
 Making all in contrib
 Making all in opal
 Making all in include
 Making all in asm
   CC       asm.lo
 ln -s "../../opal/asm/generated/atomic-amd64-linux.s" atomic-asm.S
   CPPAS    atomic-asm.lo
   CCLD     libasm.la
 ../../libtool: line 6000: cd: NO_BUILD/lib: No such file or directory
 libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `NO_BUILD/lib'
 Makefile:1584: recipe for target 'libasm.la' failed
 make[6]: *** [libasm.la] Error 1
 Makefile:2153: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
 make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 Makefile:1702: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
 make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 Died at
 /home/etuser/Cactus/arrangements/ExternalLibraries/MPI/src/build.pl line
 74.
 /home/etuser/Cactus/arrangements/ExternalLibraries/MPI/src/make.code.deps:9:
 recipe for target '/home/etuser/Cactus/configs/sim/scratch/done/MPI'
 failed
 make[3]: *** [/home/etuser/Cactus/configs/sim/scratch/done/MPI] Error 17
 /home/etuser/Cactus/lib/make/make.thornlib:112: recipe for target
 'make.checked' failed
 make[2]: *** [make.checked] Error 2
 /home/etuser/Cactus/lib/make/make.configuration:181: recipe for target
 '/home/etuser/Cactus/configs/sim/lib/libthorn_MPI.a' failed
 make[1]: *** [/home/etuser/Cactus/configs/sim/lib/libthorn_MPI.a] Error 2
 Makefile:256: recipe for target 'sim' failed
 make: *** [sim] Error 2
 The command '/bin/sh -c ./simfactory/bin/sim build -j8 --thornlist
 ../einsteintoolkit.th' returned a non-zero code: 1
 }}}

 The test system is made from docker
 {{{
 FROM ubuntu
 RUN apt-get update
 RUN apt-get install -y python3
 RUN apt-get install -y libfftw3-dev libssl-dev libhdf5-dev subversion gcc
 curl libjpeg-turbo?-dev git make pkg-config g++ libpapi-dev patch libgsl-
 dev libhwloc-dev python liblapack-dev numactl gfortran
 RUN adduser etuser
 USER etuser
 WORKDIR /home/etuser
 ENV USER etuser
 RUN curl -kLO
 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gridaphobe/CRL/master/GetComponents
 RUN chmod a+x GetComponents
 RUN ./GetComponents --parallel
 https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/manifest/raw/master/einsteintoolkit.th
 RUN echo testme > .hostname
 WORKDIR /home/etuser/Cactus
 RUN ./simfactory/bin/sim setup-silent
 RUN ./simfactory/bin/sim build -j8 --thornlist ../einsteintoolkit.th
 }}}

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