[gmx-users] Re:[gmx-users]compilation arror on SGI Octane2

[Oliver Beckstein]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Markus Metz wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
> I should add, that Fortran and C compilers are installed.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Markus,
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I am trying to compile Gromacs 3.0 on an SGI Octane2 with the operating
> system IRIX 6.5.12. 
> The installation of fftw libraries has been successful. 
> But when I am running ./configure to install Gromacs I get the following
> error message: 
> checking for C compiler default output ... configure:error: C compiler 
> cannot create executables 
> 
> I ran the following command: 
> setenv CPPFLAGS -I/usr/include 
> setenv LDFLAGS -L/usr/lib 
> ./configure 
> 

Sorry, no solution, only a suggestion what might happen: I think the
compiler (or rather the linker ld) cannot create a file 'a.out' -- the
default executable name when one doesn't give the -o option to cc.

./configure tries to do the same thing and complains if it cannot
create a.out.

To verify this try to compile helloworld.c:
--
#include <strings.h>
int main () { printf("Hello Universe!\n");  return 0; };
--

with

 cc helloworld.c

It should create a.out, but probably this fails and so the ./configure
script hangs at an early stage.

It happened to me on a DEC alpha with nfs mounted directories (from an
VMS box...).

cc helloworld.c

gave the error

ld: Can't link l.out to a.out (Permission denied)

My solution was to compile on a local disk or something nfs mounted
from somewhere else.

Oli


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