[Hrushi]

I am trying to install openFOAM 2.3.1 on opensuse Leap-42.1. I have followed instructions given on

https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-2.3.1/openSUSE

However I got error while doing third party Allwmake. I have attached the error file.

Please help.

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: I've got the feeling you're following the instructions that were written for openSUSE 12.3.

You should be following the instructions that were tested in openSUSE 13.2: https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/I...#openSUSE_13.2
For example, step #9 tells you how to create a symbolic link to the existing installation of CGAL.

edit: I've tested the instructions I mentioned on openSUSE Leap 42.1 and it worked fine for me.

[derekm]

following the wiki page I'm getting issues as well with the Allwmake of the thirdparty on OF2.4, as the environment variable CGAL_ARCH does not exist . Note paraview installs fine when you follow the instructions in the Wiki.

I'm currently building OF2.4 as interim to 3.0 and then trying foam extend 3.2 all with Leap 42.1, OPENMPI 1.10.1, OFED 3.18-1 for a 10 server 112 core cluster (none of the releases a month old ... )

[wyldckat]

Originally Posted by derekm

following the wiki page I'm getting issues as well with the Allwmake of the thirdparty on OF2.4, as the environment variable CGAL_ARCH does not exist .

Quick answer/question: I assume you're following these instructions that are adapted to OpenFOAM 2.4.0: https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/I...#openSUSE_13.2
As for the environment variable, it's meant to be named "CGAL_ARCH_PATH" and not "CGAL_ARCH" . Did you shorten it for writing here in the post or is the whole name you've tried to use?

[derekm]

Originally Posted by wyldckat

Quick answer/question: I assume you're following these instructions that are adapted to OpenFOAM 2.4.0: https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/I...#openSUSE_13.2
As for the environment variable, it's meant to be named "CGAL_ARCH_PATH" and not "CGAL_ARCH" . Did you shorten it for writing here in the post or is the whole name you've tried to use?

A typo in post oops! But I copied and pasted for the install

[wyldckat]

Originally Posted by derekm

A typo in post oops! But I copied and pasted for the install

Mmm... OK, then we will need to do some debugging of the shell environment variables. With the respective OpenFOAM shell environment activated, please run:

export > log.export 2>&1
gzip < log.export > log.export.gz

Then attach the file "log.export.gz" to your next post. This way it should be possible to fully assess what's going on.

[derekm]

I repeated the install on a fresh copy of leap 42.1 with OFED 3.18-1 and OpenMPI 1.10-1 (combined rpm with infiniband support)
and folowed the install meticulously
missing installing openmpi-devel as this was already included
correcttng a typo

mkdir -p ~/.OpenFOAM/2.4.0/config   
echo export METIS_VERSION=metis-5.1.0 > ~/.OpenFOAM/2.4.0/config/metis.sh 
echo export METIS_ARCH_PATH=/usr >> ~/.OpenFOAM/2.4.0/config/metis.sh

to

mkdir -p ~/.OpenFOAM-2.4.0/config   
echo export METIS_VERSION=metis-5.1.0 > ~/.OpenFOAM-2.4.0/config/metis.sh 
echo export METIS_ARCH_PATH=/usr >> ~/.OpenFOAM-2.4.0/config/metis.sh

and adapting to the alternate location for the install

/opt/OpenFOAM
# instead of 
$HOME/OpenFOAM

ignoring the error reported at

cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR   
mkdir -p $CGAL_ARCH_PATH 
ln -s /usr/include $CGAL_ARCH_PATH/include

and it worked! no errors in the log so I must have made a mistake in the previous install

[wyldckat]

Hi Derek,

Many thanks for the feedback! But I'm finding this change you did very strange:

Originally Posted by derekm

correcttng a typo

mkdir -p ~/.OpenFOAM/2.4.0/config   
echo export METIS_VERSION=metis-5.1.0 > ~/.OpenFOAM/2.4.0/config/metis.sh 
echo export METIS_ARCH_PATH=/usr >> ~/.OpenFOAM/2.4.0/config/metis.sh

to

mkdir -p ~/.OpenFOAM-2.4.0/config   
echo export METIS_VERSION=metis-5.1.0 > ~/.OpenFOAM-2.4.0/config/metis.sh 
echo export METIS_ARCH_PATH=/usr >> ~/.OpenFOAM-2.4.0/config/metis.sh

Try running the following commands:

foamEtcFile config/metis.sh
foamEtcFile -list

The first one should give you the path to your file "~/.OpenFOAM-2.4.0/config/metis.sh".
The second one shows the folders it looks into, for example in my case:

/home/ofuser/.OpenFOAM/2.4.0
/home/ofuser/.OpenFOAM
/home/ofuser/OpenFOAM/site/2.4.0
/home/ofuser/OpenFOAM/site
/home/ofuser/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc

And you might want to double check the environment variables:

echo $METIS_VERSION
echo $METIS_ARCH_PATH

Best regards,
Bruno

[derekm]

Note I have my installation at /opt/OpenFOAM not in $HOME. I now see the metis definitions are per user and in $HOME/.OpenFOAM/2.4.0/config/metis.sh


its a bit difficult in the wiki entry to see which bits are per installation and which bits are per user

I'm now Reading the $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/bashrc file trying to understand what the bits do

[derekm]

The metis.sh file does not get called from $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/bashrc
. This is the excerpt from the $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/bashrc
where you would expect it. There is not instance of the characters 'metis' in the entire file

# Source user setup files for optional packages
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
_foamSource `$WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/foamEtcFile config/paraview.sh`
_foamSource `$WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/foamEtcFile config/ensight.sh`
_foamSource `$WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/foamEtcFile config/gperftools.sh`
_foamSource `$WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/foamEtcFile config/CGAL.sh`

if I have this in my $HOME/.bashrc

export FOAM_VERBOSE=TRUE

ulimit -l unlimited

export PATH=/usr/lib64/openmpi/:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/openmpi/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export FOAM_INST_DIR=/opt/OpenFOAM
foamDotFile=$FOAM_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/bashrc
[ -f $foamDotFile ] && . $foamDotFile

this is what i see

Sourcing: /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/settings.sh
Sourcing: /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/aliases.sh
Sourcing: /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/paraview.sh
Using paraview
    ParaView_DIR         : /opt/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/ParaView-4.1.0
    ParaView_LIB_DIR     : /opt/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/ParaView-4.1.0/lib/paraview-4.1
    ParaView_INCLUDE_DIR : /opt/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/ParaView-4.1.0/include/paraview-4.1
    PV_PLUGIN_PATH       : /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/lib/paraview-4.1
Sourcing: /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/ensight.sh
Sourcing: /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/gperftools.sh
Sourcing: /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/etc/config/CGAL.sh
Using CGAL and boost
    CGAL-4.6 at /opt/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/CGAL-4.6
    boost-system at /opt/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0/platforms/linux64Gcc/boost-system
derekm@linux-jnen:~>

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: I didn't mention how "metis.sh" is used, because I was more concerned on the correct file being found.
But I had completely forgotten that the "metis.sh" is used only when it's necessary to use it for building the library that uses it.
It's only used/called in "OpenFOAM-*/src/parallel/decompose/metisDecomp/Allwmake" and "ThirdParty-*/Allwmake".