Facing issues while building on PPC64LE architecture.

[vinodk99]

Below is the build issue ouput:

cmake .. -DBUILD_FUNCTESTING=ON
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 11.4.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 11.4.1
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Performing Test COMPILER_SUPPORTS_CXX17
-- Performing Test COMPILER_SUPPORTS_CXX17 - Success
shared build
-- Looking for pthread.h
-- Looking for pthread.h - found
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib64/libz.so (found version "1.2.11")
Functional testing enabled.
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /kallisto/build
[root@7d5d38510f8c build]# ls
CMakeCache.txt CMakeFiles Makefile cmake_install.cmake func_tests src
[root@7d5d38510f8c build]# make install
[ 3%] Creating directories for 'bifrost'
[ 7%] No download step for 'bifrost'
[ 11%] No update step for 'bifrost'
[ 15%] No patch step for 'bifrost'
[ 19%] Performing configure step for 'bifrost'
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 11.4.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 11.4.1
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Looking for pthread.h
-- Looking for pthread.h - found
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Success
-- Found Threads: TRUE
Compilation architecture: native
Build type: Release
Maximum k-mer size: 31
Maximum g-mer size: 31
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib64/libz.so (found version "1.2.11")
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /kallisto/ext/bifrost/build
[ 23%] Performing build step for 'bifrost'
[ 3%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/bifrost_dynamic.dir/Bifrost.cpp.o
c++: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-march=native’; did you mean ‘-mcpu=native’?
make[5]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/bifrost_dynamic.dir/build.make:76: src/CMakeFiles/bifrost_dynamic.dir/Bifrost.cpp.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:128: src/CMakeFiles/bifrost_dynamic.dir/all] Error 2
make[3]: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/bifrost.dir/build.make:86: ../ext/bifrost/src/bifrost-stamp/bifrost-build] Error 2
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:147: CMakeFiles/bifrost.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2

[Yenaled]

Thanks! I think there's two things that always results in some compilations issues: 1) The AVX-2 instructions, and 2) machine architecture (march) option.

These optimizations are enabled by default (in both the distributed binaries and in the source code) as they can lead to significant speedups. However, they seem to be problematic as they can't be used on a fraction of computer systems.

I will try to add a cmake option to disable these things in the next release, and perhaps disable these automatically in the precompiled binaries.

See the issue here which may present a solution: #424

You may want to also add -DCOMPILATION_ARCH=OFF after the -DENABLE_AVX2=OFF

[spirpinias]

@Yenaled do you have a time frame for the new release with these fixes included?

[Yenaled]

Unfortunately not yet; haven't really prioritize it since kallisto works on most (albeit not all) systems. As such, a new release will include more than just these upgrades to the compilation/cmake options.

[Yenaled]

@spirpinias I expect that it will happen sometime this month.

Delaney

[vinodk99]

@spirpinias I expect that it will happen sometime this month.

Delaney

@spirpinias is this fixed?

[Yenaled]

In the devel version (available on the "devel" branch on GitHub), you can now compile kallisto via:

cmake .. -ENABLE_AVX2=OFF -COMPILATION_ARCH=OFF

That has not been put onto the "master" branch for stable release yet, because a project of ours is going through the final rounds of editing.

[Yenaled]

I apologize for the delay on this — things are still on devel branch, because a project accompanying the next release of kallisto is taking longer than expected to be put out. It’s already finished; there are just some internal discussions right now that need to be resolved. It will happen soon!