[kpsl]

Dear Foamers,

as the title suggests I am trying to compile OpenFOAM-2.4.x on CentOS 6.5.

So far I have been following these instructions:
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...CentOS_SL_RHEL

I manage to compile all the third party compilers etc. just fine but when I get to compiling OpenFOAM I get the following error:

primitives/triad/triad.C:36: error: expected initializer before '<' token
primitives/triad/triad.C:39: error: expected initializer before '<' token

Now, according to my research on the forum and the rest of the internet, this error occurs when using gcc version 4.4 or lower.
See:
http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...edhat-el5.html

While CentOS 6.5 does come with gcc-4.4.7, I am, however, using gcc-4.8.4 as installed per the instructions on opwnfoamwiki.net.

Has anybody else encountered this issue and possibly found some kind of solution? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards
Kris

[wyldckat]

Greetings Kris,

Something went wrong while you were following the instructions. My guess is that when you executed this command:

source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.x/etc/bashrc WM_NCOMPPROCS=4 foamCompiler=ThirdParty \
WM_COMPILER=Gcc48 WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI

the command string was broken. Because this is the same as running in a single line:

source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.x/etc/bashrc WM_NCOMPPROCS=4 foamCompiler=ThirdParty WM_COMPILER=Gcc48 WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI

The other possibility is that the alias creation command wasn't successful, namely this command:

echo "alias of24x='module load openmpi-x86_64; source \$HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.x/etc/bashrc $FOAM_SETTINGS'" >> $HOME/.bashrc

Or perhaps even that the following command wasn't properly used:

wmSET $FOAM_SETTINGS

To help diagnose the problem, please let me know what the following commands give you:

echo $FOAM_SETTINGS

grep "alias" ~/.bashrc

Best regards,
Bruno

[kpsl]

Dear Bruno,

first off, thank you very much for your quick response
Your first hunch was indeed correct in that I was not sourcing correctly.

I am forced to install in an alternative location because my $HOME directory is a network mount and thus very slow compared to my local drives. Looking back I should have just created a symbolic link in ~/OpenFOAM, thus enabling me to follow your instructions exactly, but instead I was sourcing as follows in my .bashrc:

module load openmpi-x86_64
export FOAM_INST_DIR=/data/app/OpenFOAM
foamDotFile=$FOAM_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-2.4.x/etc/bashrc
[ -f $foamDotFile ] && . $foamDotFile
WM_NCOMPPROCS=6 
foamCompiler=ThirdParty
WM_COMPILER=Gcc48 
WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI

This of course meant that the $FOAM_SETTINGS were not defined correctly and that OpenFoam would use the system's compiler regardless of my settings.
Thanks to your hint I changed the relevant entry in my .bashrc to the following:

module load openmpi-x86_64
export FOAM_INST_DIR=/data/app/OpenFOAM
foamDotFile=$FOAM_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-2.4.x/etc/bashrc
[ -f $foamDotFile ] && . $foamDotFile WM_NCOMPPROCS=6 foamCompiler=ThirdParty WM_COMPILER=Gcc48 WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI

As a result the settings are now correctly defined:

echo $FOAM_SETTINGS
WM_NCOMPPROCS=6 foamCompiler=ThirdParty WM_COMPILER=Gcc48 WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI

and OF compiles without a hitch. I also managed to compile ParaView 4.10 with python support and mpi as per your instructions.

Thank you very much for your help and for your excellent guidance. Keep up the great work
Kris