amd64-gcc question

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Wed Nov 11 16:19:23 UTC 2015


On 11/10/15 09:22, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 11/09/15 11:19, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>>
>> I pkg-installed amd64-gcc over the weekend hoping for Graphite 
>> (auto-loop parallelization) support, but no go. I looked around over 
>> the weekend & found that there was no port for that package, only the 
>> pkg. I just did a 'portsnap fetch upgrade' & there is now a port for 
>> amd64-gcc, but it includes no files & no pkg-descr file. I determined 
>> over the weekend that the gcc's from about V4.3 on can indeed be 
>> built w/ Graphite support, but you need to do it manually. I found a 
>> post dated 2010 from someone who did it under linux: 
>> http://openwall.info/wiki/internal/gcc-local-build. I see no 
>> configure files for any of the gcc ports (I have the entire ports 
>> tree downloaded & local, & freshly updated as of a few min. ago). 
>> What is the canonical/BPP (FreeBSD 9.3R) way of recompiling a port 
>> with different config flags ?
>>
>>
>> I did find ports/pkgs for the 2 main components apparently needed for 
>> Graphite support (cloog & ppl) & pkg-installed them over the weekend, 
>> so I am ready to go on that front.
>>
>>
>> I have gotten as far as running 'make showconfig' in the various gcc* 
>> & amd64-gcc directories to see what info I could get on default 
>> config options. In all cases they gave options & said to run 'make 
>> config' to change options. I didn't even see a 'config:' entry in the 
>> Makefiles (probably included from elsewhere, but I didn't chase it). 
>> I only want to make the minimum # of config mods necessary (trusting 
>> that pkg/port maintainers probably know more than I about their 
>> various pkg's & ports) to add the cloog & ppl support & recompile.
>>
>>
>> I have been using pkg almost exclusively to maintain my (now 3) 
>> FreeBSD 9.3R boxen, except for recompiling the linux-c6 flash plugin 
>> for this box whenever it get upgraded, so I have *no* experience with 
>> getting more nitty-gritty w/ FreeBSD ports than that :-/. TIA & have 
>> a good one.
>
>
> Well, I plunged ahead by modifying the Makefile for 
> /usr/ports/lang/gcc49 to include '--with-ppl=/usr/local/lib 
> --with-cloog=/usr/local/lib' in the 'CONFIGURE_ARGS+=' block & kicked 
> off a 'make install', with all output collected in a file for perusal 
> & posting if necessary. I grepped through for cloog & ominously found 
> no occurrences. I tried ppl & found some, so I decided to just go 
> ahead & try the compiler on my code. I got the same results as over 
> the weekend:
>
>
> Beginning background make all
> Initiated at 08:58:01 AM MCST on Tuesday, November 10, 2015
>
> gcc49 -DNDEBUG -DUNDER_SCORE_SYS -DLOSE_GAMMAL -I../include -I~/inc 
> -I../Properties -I../TEST -I../pre  -march=opteron -mtune=opteron -O3 
> -floop-strip-mine -floop-blo
> ck -fprefetch-loop-arrays -floop-parallelize-all 
> -ftree-parallelize-loops=4 -fopt-info -c mpi.c mpprime.c
> mpi.c:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: Graphite loop optimizations cannot be 
> used (-fgraphite, -fgraphite-identity, -floop-block, 
> -floop-interchange, -floop-strip-mine, -fl
> oop-parallelize-all, and -ftree-loop-linear)
>  /*
>  ^
> mpprime.c:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: Graphite loop optimizations 
> cannot be used (-fgraphite, -fgraphite-identity, -floop-block, 
> -floop-interchange, -floop-strip-mine,
>  -floop-parallelize-all, and -ftree-loop-linear)
>  /*
>  ^
> *** [../lib/R4/opteron/libmpi.a] Error code 1
> 1 error
> `usual' not remade because of errors.
> gcc49 -DNDEBUG -DUNDER_SCORE_SYS -DLOSE_GAMMAL -I../include -I~/inc 
> -I../Properties -I../TEST -I../pre  -DP64_BIT -march=opteron 
> -mtune=opteron -O3 -floop-strip-mine
> -floop-block -fprefetch-loop-arrays -floop-parallelize-all 
> -ftree-parallelize-loops=4 -fopt-info -c mpi.c mpprime.c
> mpi.c:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: Graphite loop optimizations cannot be 
> used (-fgraphite, -fgraphite-identity, -floop-block, 
> -floop-interchange, -floop-strip-mine, -fl
> oop-parallelize-all, and -ftree-loop-linear)
>  /*
>  ^
> mpprime.c:1:0: sorry, unimplemented: Graphite loop optimizations 
> cannot be used (-fgraphite, -fgraphite-identity, -floop-block, 
> -floop-interchange, -floop-strip-mine,
>  -floop-parallelize-all, and -ftree-loop-linear)
>  /*
>  ^
> *** [../lib/R8/opteron/libmpi.a] Error code 1
> 1 error
> `usual' not remade because of errors.
> MakeMPI: OPTERON up to date.
>
>
> i.e. no Graphite support. As I said above I have (all of ?) the 
> required other ports (cloog & ppl & their dependencies) pkg-installed 
> & ready to go. What does a feller have to do to get this to work :-) ? 
> *ANY* clues appreciated. TIA & have a good one.



Jeeeez, *c'mon guys !!!!*, someone throw me a bone here :-). Is this 
feasible at all ? Just (more) pilot error ? A mix of the 2, or other 
issues ? Enquiring minds wanna know :-) ....


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