[Users] HDF5 error: header file can't be opened/seen?

[Ian Hinder]

On 20 Aug 2015, at 10:56, dumsani <g14n8326 at campus.ru.ac.za> wrote:

> Hi Frank, Everyone
> 
> The problem was solved. Thanks to your suggestion to use the
> VERBOSE=yes option. This option revealed that the HDF5
> library path was not correctly specified in my .cfg file. There
> was an extra /lib bit on the path, instead of giving the path only
> up to the top-level library directory. That apparently confused
> the compiler, and hence the include directory could not be
> found.
> 
> Thank you for your assistance.

Perhaps the HDF5 thorn (and all other external library thorns) should check that the paths given actually exist, and abort, or at least give a warning, if they don't?

> 
> Kind regards,
> Dumsani
> 
> On 19/08/2015 18:21, Frank Loeffler wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 05:54:51PM +0200, dumsani wrote:
>>> I'am trying to build (compile) a simulation using some private thorns and
>>> the Einstein Toolkit (ET_2014_05). The build goes through successfully on
>>> my local machine (a laptop running on Gnu/Linux mint 17.1, using GCC
>>> compilers).
>>> 
>>> However, when compiling the same code on a remote cluster (running on
>>> Gnu/Linux RedHat plus Intel compilers) the compiling persistently fails with
>>> the error:
>>> cactus/arrangements/EinsteinAnalysis/AHFinderDirect/src/patch/patch_system.cc(87):
>>> 
>>> catastrophic error: cannot open source file "hdf5.h"
>>>   #  include <hdf5.h>
>> This failure, as you probably guessed, means that the compiler cannot
>> find the hdf5 library - not just the C++ part, the library itself.
>> 
>>> Searching on Google, there seems to have been aticket
>>> (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/911, or
>>> http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2012-July/002333.html) on
>>> this
>>> issue and it was resolved.
>> Since you are using 2014_05 this should be already resolved in your
>> checkout.
>> 
>> Compile again, using 'make sim VERBOSE=yes'. This should give you
>> the complete compiler command line used for
>> cactus/arrangements/EinsteinAnalysis/AHFinderDirect/src/patch/patch_system.cc.
>> See if this line includes the hdf5 library (it does not have to
>> necessarily). Besides that line, let us know how the HDF5 thorn
>> configured HDF5: do you use a system-provided version, a version you
>> compiled yourself, or a version Cactus built for you?
>> 
>> We would need at least that information to see what is going on. Also -
>> did you try using a newer ET release?
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
> 
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