Comment (by Federico Cipolletta):

Dear Roland,

Actually I was trying to run a test on green-prairies at CCRG at RIT, and although I was not having issues during compilation, but at runtime I received an error regarding the libpfm.so.4. In particular I had an error of this kind:

error while loading shared libraries: libpfm.so.4: cannot open shared objet file: No such file or directory

In reality, I searched into the cluster and found the libpfm.so.4 in /usr/lib64. On the other hand, also linking this path to the PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH enviromental variables, did not changed anything.

At the end, after several trials, I managed to make the simulation run excluding ExternalLibraries/PAPI from the thornlist.

I don’t know how much this can be related to your issue, but maybe it could be usefule for new users.

Bye,

Federico Cipolletta.

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2183/papi-fails-to-compile-with-gcc-8