[Mesa-users] Error in Installing MESA

[Warrick Ball]

Hi everyone,

Our thread fell off the mailing list but to make sure the solution is preserved, Divyansh was using Josiah Schwab's `mesa-init` scripts [1], which appear to have fallen out of sync with the MESA SDK init scripts.  The solution was to use the scripts included with the MESA SDK rather than those in Josiah's `mesa-init`.

I expect this is because the SDK switched to always regenerating GCC's fixed header files, so that step had to be done manually because it was after the last update to `mesa-init`.  This used to be a common issue and is described in the MESA FAQ. [2]

Cheers,
Warrick

[1] https://github.com/jschwab/mesa-init
[2] https://docs.mesastar.org/en/latest/faq.html#why-do-i-get-the-error-c-compiler-cannot-create-executables

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Warrick Ball
Senior Research Software Engineer
University of Birmingham
W.H.Ball at bham.ac.uk

On Tue, 30 May 2023, Warrick Ball via Mesa-users wrote:

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> Hi,
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> Try installing the glibc headers with:
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>    sudo dnf install glibc-devel
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> then running ./install again.
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> Cheers,
> Warrick
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> Warrick Ball
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> On Tue, 30 May 2023, Divyansh Tripathi 20108 via Mesa-users wrote:
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>>  Yes, I have all dependencies installed.
>>
>>  On Tue, 30 May 2023, 2:49 pm Rob Farmer, <robert.j.farmer37 at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>        Can you confirm you have installed all the dependencies listed at
>>        http://user.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=mesasdk#Prerequisites
>>        for your linux distribution?
>>
>>  Rob
>>
>>  On Mon, 29 May 2023 at 21:35, Divyansh Tripathi 20108 via Mesa-users
>>  <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>>        Hello, all
>>
>>        I am Divyansh; I am trying to install MESA on my machine, but every
>>  time installation fails. I am attaching the output of the build.log file
>>  below.
>>  Don't know what went wrong and how to make it work.
>>
>>  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>  MESA Version
>>  r22.11.1
>>
>>  uname -a
>>  Linux fedora 6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May 11
>>  17:37:39 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>  gfortran -v
>>  Using built-in specs.
>>  COLLECT_GCC=/home/dt/mesasdk/bin/gfortran.exec
>>  COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/dt/mesasdk/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/12.1.0/lto-wrapper
>>  Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>  Configured with: /home/user/sdk2-tmp/build/gcc/configure CC= CXX=
>>  --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>  --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/home/user/sdk2-tmp/mesasdk
>>  --with-gmp=/home/user/sdk2-tmp/mesasdk
>>  --with-mpfr=/home/user/sdk2-tmp/mesasdk
>>  --with-mpc=/home/user/sdk2-tmp/mesasdk --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran
>>  --disable-multilib --disable-nls --disable-libsanitizer
>>  --enable-clocale=generic
>>  Thread model: posix
>>  Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib
>>  gcc version 12.1.0 (GCC)
>>
>>  $MESASDK_ROOT
>>  /home/dt/mesasdk
>>
>>  MESASDK version
>>  x86_64-linux-22.6.1
>>
>>  $PATH
>>  /home/dt/mesasdk/bin:/home/dt/.local/bin:/home/dt/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
>>
>>  $MESA_DIR
>>  /home/dt/mesa-r22.11.1
>> 
>>
>>  /home/dt/mesa-r22.11.1/const
>>  building const package.
>>
>>  MAKEDEPF90
>>  COMPILE_CMD ../public/const_def.f90
>>  COMPILE_CMD ../public/const_lib.f90
>>  LIB_TOOL libconst.a
>>  MAKEDEPF90
>>  TEST_COMPILE ../src/test_const.f
>>  LOADER ../tester
>>  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
>>  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
>>  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm: No such file or directory
>>  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make:  *** [makefile_base:36: ../tester] Error 1
>>
>>  /home/dt/mesa-r22.11.1/const/test
>>  FAILED
>> 
>>
>>  /home/dt/mesa-r22.11.1/const
>>  ./build_and_test FAILED
>>
>>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>  Regards
>>  Divyansh Tripathi
>>  BS-MS, 3rd Year (Physics Major)
>>  Department of Physics (20108)
>>  Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal (IISER Bhopal)
>>
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