[Users] issue of compilation of ETK on Ubuntu 18.04

[Roland Haas]

Hello all,

closing off this thread. Federico responded to me in private email
stating that after installing Ubuntu 18.04 from scratch the error went
away.

Yours,
Roland

> Dear EinsteiToolkit user support,
> 
> I am recently experiencing some issues compiling the ETK standard thornlist
> (version "Mayer") on my Workstation with Ubuntu 18.04 as OS.
> 
> Once I could compile the ETK (version "Tesla") correctly but after some
> recent upgrades, I cannot compile any thornlist within my machine. So I
> tried downloading the ETK most recent version (namely "Mayer) and build the
> standar thornlist from scratch, but I am always getting the same error.
> 
> I attach the compilation output of my last trial (namely the "ET"
> configuration). In order to build the ET configuration, I used the
> following command:
> 
> ./simfactory/bin/sim build ET --machine=WS03 --thornlist=./thornlists/
> einsteintoolkit.th >& compilation.out
> 
> The WS03 machine was defined by me in a "standard" way, and the WS03.ini
> file is calling the generic.cfg, generic.run and generic.sub files.
> 
> The current version of gcc, g++, gfortran and cpp compilers that I am using
> are the 7.4.0 GNU ones, although I tried also the 5.5 and 8.3 ones (always
> getting the same error). In order to set the version of the compiler, I am
> currently using the following command (for gcc - for the other compiler it
> is equivalent):
> 
> sudo update-alternatives --config gcc
> 
> As you can see, the last lines in the compilation.out files are the
> following:
> 
> Checking status of thorn CalcK
> COMPILING EinsteinAnalysis/CalcK/src/CalcK.F90
> f951: Fatal Error: Reading module ‘cctk’ at line 1310 column 20: Unexpected
> EOF
> compilation terminated.
> /home/federico/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/configs/ET/config-data/make.config.rules:409:
> recipe for target 'CalcK.F90.o' failed
> make[3]: *** [CalcK.F90.o] Error 1
> /home/federico/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/lib/make/make.thornlib:112:
> recipe for target 'make.checked' failed
> make[2]: *** [make.checked] Error 2
> /home/federico/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/lib/make/make.configuration:181:
> recipe for target
> '/home/federico/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/configs/ET/lib/libthorn_CalcK.a'
> failed
> make[1]: ***
> [/home/federico/Documents/EinsteinToolkit/Cactus/configs/ET/lib/libthorn_CalcK.a]
> Error 2
> Makefile:256: recipe for target 'ET' failed
> make: *** [ET] Error 2
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for me?
> 
> Best regards,
> Federico Cipolletta.



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