I can confirm that the problem appears specific to Apple's compiler.

Since the failure was reported to be configure-time, that took less time to check up on that I'd expected.
What I find is that gcc-4.0.0 on Linux/x86 *does* fail the "#_gsym_test_func" test, but for the RIGHT reason, and then goes on to pass the next test case with the proper form of global symbol.  The relevent portion of config.log appears below.

-Paul

configure:27399: checking prefix for global symbol labels
configure: trying _
configure:27439: gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -DNDEBUG -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing -c conftest.s >conftest.out 2>&1
configure:27442: $? = 0
configure:27447: gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -DNDEBUG -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing -I. conftest_c.c -c > conftest.cmpl 2>&1
configure:27450: $? = 0
configure:27455: gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -DNDEBUG -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing conftest_c.o conftest.o -o conftest    > conftest.link 2>&1
configure:27458: $? = 1
conftest_c.o: In function `main':
conftest_c.o(.text+0xd): undefined reference to `gsym_test_func'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed C program was:
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
void gsym_test_func(void);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
int
main()
{
    gsym_test_func();
    return 0;
}
configure: failed ASM program was:

.text
# _gsym_test_func
.globl _gsym_test_func
_gsym_test_func:
# _gsym_test_func

configure: trying
configure:27439: gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -DNDEBUG -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing -c conftest.s >conftest.out 2>&1
configure:27442: $? = 0
configure:27447: gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -DNDEBUG -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing -I. conftest_c.c -c > conftest.cmpl 2>&1
configure:27450: $? = 0
configure:27455: gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -DNDEBUG -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing conftest_c.o conftest.o -o conftest    > conftest.link 2>&1
configure:27458: $? = 0
configure:27496: result:




On 1/25/2011 2:19 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
I have gcc-4.0.0 on Linux built from unmodified FSF sources.
I will try to reproduce.

-Paul

On 1/25/2011 1:47 PM, Nathan Hjelm wrote:
Looks like a bug in Apple's gcc 4.0. I tried the source with gcc 3.4.6 and gcc 4.1.2 on Linux and did not see that error.

I will take a look and see if there is a simple fix to get around this apparent compiler bug.

-Nathan

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Jeff Squyres wrote:

Short version
=============

MTT turned up a problem with -std=gnu99 on OS X Leopard, which ships with the gcc 4.0 compiler (OS X Snow Leopard ships with gcc 4.2, and doesn't have a problem).  Does anyone have gcc 4.0 on Linux?  I'm wondering if the same problem would occur.

More details:
=============

From our friends at Absoft:

-----
The -std=gnu99 is causing the problem when used with gcc-4.0 ( the default on Leopard with Apple's XCode 3.1 development tools ):

BigMac:ompi cag$ gcc --version -std=gnu99 -c conftest.s
conftest.s:2:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #_gsym_test_func
conftest.s:5:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #_gsym_test_func
BigMac:ompi cag$ gcc-4.0 -std=gnu99 -c conftest.s
conftest.s:2:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #_gsym_test_func
conftest.s:5:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #_gsym_test_func
BigMac:ompi cag$ gcc-4.2 -std=gnu99 -c conftest.s
BigMac:ompi cag$

On Snow Leopard with Apple's XCode 3.2 development tools, the default compiler is 4.2.
-----

The compile line he's talking about in particular is from a configure test in opal/config/opal_config_asm.m4, where we're looking for assembly global symbols.  The source that we're trying to compile is:

-----
.text
# _gsym_test_func
.globl _gsym_test_func
_gsym_test_func:
# _gsym_test_func
-----

(configure tries a few prefixes)

But the "#" token with the -std=gnu99 option is causing failures where it shouldn't (i.e., it causes configure to abort because all the assembly tests looking for the global symbols error out due to the # token.

So I think we either need to find a workaround for this assembly test or whack the idea of the C99 stuff.  :-(



On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Nathan Hjelm wrote:

No, they didn't get added (adding them now). I didn't get a chance to add them over the weekend.

-Nathan

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Jeff Squyres wrote:

I'm getting these:

CC     dummy_component.lo
dummy_component.c:25: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c:28: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c:29: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c:30: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c:31: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c:33: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c:34: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c:35: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c:37: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c:39: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy_component.c: In function ‘component_open’:
dummy_component.c:45: warning: unused variable ‘c’
dummy.c:67: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy.c:68: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy.c:69: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
dummy.c:70: warning: ISO C90 forbids specifying subobject to initialize
CCLD   mca_debugger_dummy.la

Did the autoconf tests not get added?

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