cray topology detection build time failure on perlmutter with confusing error message
ericjbohm opened this issue · 2 comments
./build charm++ ofi-crayshasta ...
will fail on perlmutter with the following error output:
charm/src/util/topomanager/CrayNid.c: In function 'getXTNodeID':
charm/src/util/topomanager/CrayNid.c:46:2: error: #error "Cannot get network topology information on a Cray build. Swap current module xt-mpt with xt-mpt/5.0.0 or higher and xt-asyncpe with xt-asyncpe/4.0 or higher and then rebuild"
46 | #error "Cannot get network topology information on a Cray build. Swap current module xt-mpt with xt-mpt/5.0.0 or higher and xt-asyncpe with xt-asyncpe/4.0 or higher and then rebuild"
| ^~~~~
Which will be terribly confusing for a typical user as none of those modules exist in a slingshot environment.
This can be resolved via :
module load cray-pmi
Which is not in the default module stack on perlmutter.
The error output should be updated accordingly in slingshot environments.
It looks like this commit never made it into a PR...
@ericjbohm Could you make a PR for your branch 3688-cray-topology-detection-build-time-failure-on-perlmutter-with-confusing-error-message?