[Coin-discuss] Compile of dip on AIX - help required

[Derek Jones]

Ted, many thanks, I'm going to mess with those options a bit see if I 
can get it to work. Appreciate your help.

Kind regards

Derek.


Ted Ralphs wrote:
> Hi Derek,
> 
> It looks to me like you're overriding some variables that are not
> really intended for users. First, I would suggest setting ADDLIBS
> rather than LIBS, since this is the variable intended for what you are
> wanting to do. Second, I would not set CXXFLAGS manually. With gcc,
> overriding this set of flags in the way you do does break the build,
> so it may also with xlc. The optimization level is set automatically,
> along with a number of other flags that will be overridden by your
> manual setting. There is a variable OPT_CXXFLAGS for overriding just
> the optimization level if you want to use that (by default, it is
> already -O2 I think) and a variables ADD_CXXFLAGS for adding flags to
> the ones set automatically by configure. It is suggested on the
> "current issues" page here
> 
> https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/current-issues
> 
> to set ADD_CXXFLAGS="-qrtti" with xlc. Just to be safe, I would also
> avoid setting CFLAGS, FFLAGS, and LDFLAGS (this one should be OK, but
> since you aren't setting it to anything, it seems worth not setting it
> at all). The changes that Stefan's patch makes seem to already be
> present in the version of Cbc that DIP's trunk is using, so I'm not
> sure that will help. Give the above a try (configuring from a clean
> copy) and see if it works. By the way, if you build in a subdirectory
> instead of the root, it makes getting back to a pristine copy of the
> code a lot easier. Just do
> 
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure --your-args
> 
> Hope this helps. Let us know how you do.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ted
> 
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Stefan Vigerske
> <stefan at math.hu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this looks like a problem with confusing LIBS and LDADD in the Cbc (and
>> Clp) Makefile.
>> Problem is that the LIBS flag is also used when building libClp, libCbc,
>> and libCbcSolver, but should only be used for building binaries.
>>
>> For a workaround, edit the generated Makefiles as shown here:
>> https://projects.coin-or.org/GAMSlinks/browser/trunk/makefiles.patch
>>
>> A real fix will come with some larger changes in the build system - that
>> may still take some time.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>> Am 02.06.2010 21:37, schrieb Derek Jones:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> With Matt Galati's help, I've been trying to compile Dip from the trunk
>>> under AIX
>>>
>>> Hitting problems with the Cbc section.
>>>
>>> Here's what I have so far:
>>>
>>>
>>> ./configure \
>>> --prefix=/lapps/local_Alper \
>>> --disable-shared \
>>> --enable-static=yes \
>>> AR="ar  -X64 " \
>>> NM="nm  -X64 " \
>>> F77="xlf -q64 " \
>>> CC="xlc   -q64 " \
>>> CXX="xlC   -q64 " \
>>> CFLAGS="    -O -bmaxdata:0x3f0000000    " \
>>> CXXFLAGS="   -O -bmaxdata:0x3f0000000 -qrtti " \
>>> FFLAGS="   " \
>>> LIBS=" -lm -lpthread " \
>>> LDFLAGS=" " \
>>> --with-cplex-incdir=/opt/ilog/
>>> cplex121/include/ilcplex \
>>> --with-cplex-lib="
>>> /opt/ilog/cplex121/lib/power64_aix5.3_7.0/static_stl/libcplex.a
>>> /opt/ilog/cplex121/lib/power64_aix5.3_7.0/static_stl/libilocplex.a  "
>>>
>>> It gets a good way through, but fails like this:
>>>
>>> xlC -q64 -O -bmaxdata:0x3f0000000 -qrtti -o cbc CoinSolve.o
>>> ./.libs/libCbcSolver.a ./.libs/libCbc.a
>>> /home/derjones/COIN/coin-Dip/Cbc/../Cgl/src/.libs/libCgl.a
>>> /home/derjones/COIN/coin-Dip/Cbc/../Osi/src/OsiClp/.libs/libOsiClp.a
>>> /home/derjones/COIN/coin-Dip/Cbc/../Osi/src/.libs/libOsi.a
>>> /home/derjones/COIN/coin-Dip/Cbc/../Clp/src/.libs/libClp.a
>>> /home/derjones/COIN/coin-Dip/Cbc/../CoinUtils/src/.libs/libCoinUtils.a
>>> /home/derjones/COIN/coin-Dip/Cbc/../Osi/src/OsiCpx/.libs/libOsiCpx.a
>>> -lblas /opt/ilog/cplex121/lib/
>>> power64_aix5.3_7.0/static_stl/libcplex.a
>>> /opt/ilog/cplex121/lib/power64_aix5.3_7.0/static_stl/libilocplex.a -lm
>>> -lpthread
>>> -blibpath:/lapps/local_Alper/lib:/usr/vac/lib:/usr/vacpp/lib:/usr/lib:/lib
>>> munch: Error reading input file ./.libs/libCbcSolver.a
>>> make[2]: *** [cbc] Error 1
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/derjones/COIN/coin-Dip/Cbc/src'
>>> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/derjones/COIN/coin-Dip/Cbc'
>>> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's the lib info.
>>>
>>> portia $ cd Cbc/src
>>> portia $ ar t .libs/libCbcSolver.
>>> libCbcSolver.a    libCbcSolver.la   libCbcSolver.lai
>>> portia $ ar t .libs/libCbcSolver.a
>>> libcplex.a
>>> libilocplex.a
>>> lt1-libcplex.a
>>> lt2-libilocplex.a
>>> lt3-libcplex.a
>>> lt4-libilocplex.a
>>> libcplex.a
>>> libilocplex.a
>>> libcplex.a
>>> libilocplex.a
>>> libcplex.a
>>> libilocplex.a
>>> portia $ ls -l .libs/libCbcSolver.a
>>> -rw-rw-r--    1 derjones xplat      61283112 Jun 02 15:04
>>> .libs/libCbcSolver.a
>>> portia $
>>>
>>>
>>> portia $ file .libs/libCbcSolver.a
>>> .libs/libCbcSolver.a: archive (big format)
>>>
>>> Any ideas? How about the configure?
>>>
>>> Help appreciated,
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Derek.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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