Config error with version 2.4.4 (I am forced to use this one)

[agiordan96]

Hello all,
I am configuring SAMRAI 2.4.4 on a MacBook Silicone and my configuration fails due to C++ compiler not able to write executable files. I am attaching the config.log file to this message as you might be able to find the error faster than me.

I am unfortunately forced to use this older version as my target software does not work with either older or newer versions of SAMRAI...

Thank you:)!!

config.log

[PhilipDeegan]

looks like you are having this issue https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/4797

ld: unknown options: -commons

[boyceg]

We are one project that is still stuck using SAMRAI 2. (Maybe we will finally get over that particular hump in 2024.) At any rate, we have a patch file that should allow it to compile on MacOS with M1 and M2 processors. See:

https://github.com/IBAMR/IBAMR/releases/tag/v0.13.0

[agiordan96]

We are one project that is still stuck using SAMRAI 2. (Maybe we will finally get over that particular hump in 2024.) At any rate, we have a patch file that should allow it to compile on MacOS with M1 and M2 processors. See:

https://github.com/IBAMR/IBAMR/releases/tag/v0.13.0

I have already patched that file, but it does not solve the issue. mpicc cannot be used yet, so it is impossible to configure and install SAMRAI successfully on an M1 Mac machine (at least that I know).

[boyceg]

I just tried this on my M1 Mac from scratch and everything worked OK.

It looks like you are actually running into problems with MPICH and OpenMPI with the current MacOS command line tools. Currently, I can only get Homebrew MPICH to work if I run

brew reinstall --build-from-source mpich

I cannot get OpenMPI to work in any of the configurations that I've tried.

See some discussion here: https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/4797

[boyceg]

FWIW, I also can now get OpenMPI to work if I use the --build-from-source option.