[Users] Problem with building the Einstein Toolkit

[Roland Haas]

Hello Sumedha,

adding module load mpi/openmpi-x86_64 fixed the issue for me. 

I will update the tutorial to include this information.

Yours,
Roland

> Hello Sumedha,
> 
> sorry for the late response.
> 
> It seems there may be information missing in our tutorial.
> 
> Steve Brandt, who is also using Fedora, has seen errors like the one
> you describe when Cactus tried to build its own MPI rather than using
> the system MPI.
> 
> Since you are using Fedora, my guess is that you need to run
> 
> module load mpi/openmpi-x86_64
> 
> before you run simfactory/bin/sim build
> 
> the exact name of the module to load can be found in the output of
> "module avail".
> 
> Yours,
> Roland
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've been following the download instructions as given on this page - https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/nds-org/jupyter-et/blob/master/CactusTutorial.ipynb to install the Einstein Toolkit on fedora.
> > 
> > However, when I attempt running the command to build the toolkit -
> > 
> > ./simfactory/bin/sim build --mdbkey make 'make -j2' --thornlist ../einsteintoolkit.th | cat
> > 
> > I get the following compilation error:
> > 
> > ../../libtool: line 6000: cd: NO_BUILD/lib: No such file or directory
> > libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `NO_BUILD/lib'
> > make[6]: *** [Makefile:1584: libasm.la] Error 1
> > make[5]: *** [Makefile:2153: all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[4]: *** [Makefile:1702: all-recursive] Error 1
> > Died at /root/Cactus/arrangements/ExternalLibraries/MPI/src/build.pl line 74.
> > make[3]: *** [/root/Cactus/arrangements/ExternalLibraries/MPI/src/make.code.deps:9: /root/Cactus/configs/sim/scratch/done/MPI] Error 17
> > make[2]: *** [/root/Cactus/lib/make/make.thornlib:113: make.checked] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [/root/Cactus/lib/make/make.configuration:181: /root/Cactus/configs/sim/lib/libthorn_MPI.a] Error 2
> > make: *** [Makefile:260: sim] Error 2
> > 
> > 
> > How do I fix this and successfully install and run the Einstein Toolkit?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Sumedha Biswas  
> 
> 
> 



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