Ubuntu 10.04 compatibility problem

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1

Hello,

the PGI 10.04 has the problem with glibc library:
“ERROR: unknown glibc version (stable)” … during instalation process.

Ubuntu 10.04 has the newer glibc library 2.11.1 (2.10.1 is officially supported by PGI 10.4).

Is there any workaround to solve this problem?

Thank in advance, Michal

2

Well, OK … no response?!

So, recently I should wait for next release 10.5. But, is anybody from PortlandGroup able to confirm, that my problem with incompatibility of the glibc library is real?

Michal

3

Hi Michal,

Sorry for the late response.

The 10.5 installer has been updated to recognize glibc 2.11. For earlier versions of the compiler, please contact PGI Customer Support (trs@pgroup.com) for a work around.

Thanks,
Mat

4

I just downloaded PGI 10.5 and I still get an unrecognized glibc error on Ubuntu 10.04. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Todd

5

The 10.5 release was modified to handle glibc 2.11 and higher, and we tested it
on Fedora 12. But we did not test Ubuntu 10.04. We will do that - Ubuntu changes
more things than other Linux versions, and it could be a change we did not
anticipate. For example, ‘arch’ does not work on Ubuntu, so we had to replace it with ‘uname -m’ in our install scripts.

dave

6

You will need to apply a patch for Ubuntu 10.04 support.

Save the code included below to a file (pgi-ubuntu.patch) and place it in the directory where you extracted the PGI 10.5 tar file.

Run:

patch -p0 --dry-run < pgi-ubuntu.patch

If the patch is successful, remove “–dry-run” and apply the patch. Then install normally.

Note: You will need to add a single space after the line “! #! /bin/sh” in the code below (line 53) since the forum is parsing it out. It should read "! #! /bin/sh " without quotations.

pgi-ubuntu.patch:

*** linux86/10.5/bin/makelocalrc        2010-05-06 17:45:26.000000000 -0700
--- makelocalrc 2010-05-11 17:41:25.332909367 -0700
***************
*** 133,144 ****
      quit
    fi
  
!   y=`strings $LIBC | grep 'GNU C Library (EGLIBC)'`
!   if test $? -ne 0; then
!     x=`strings $LIBC | grep 'GNU C Library' | cut -d, -f1 | awk '{print $7}'`
!   else
!     x=`strings $LIBC | grep 'GNU C Library' | cut -d, -f1 | awk '{print $8}'`
!   fi
  
    if test -n "$x" ; then
      GLIBC_VERSION=$x
--- 133,139 ----
      quit
    fi
  
!   x=`strings $LIBC | grep 'GNU C Library' | sed -e 's/.*version //' -e 's/,/ /' | awk '{print $1}'`
  
    if test -n "$x" ; then
      GLIBC_VERSION=$x
*** linux86-64/10.5/bin/makelocalrc     2010-05-06 17:45:26.000000000 -0700
--- makelocalrc 2010-05-11 17:41:25.332909367 -0700
***************
*** 133,144 ****
      quit
    fi
  
!   y=`strings $LIBC | grep 'GNU C Library (EGLIBC)'`
!   if test $? -ne 0; then
!     x=`strings $LIBC | grep 'GNU C Library' | cut -d, -f1 | awk '{print $7}'`
!   else
!     x=`strings $LIBC | grep 'GNU C Library' | cut -d, -f1 | awk '{print $8}'`
!   fi
  
    if test -n "$x" ; then
      GLIBC_VERSION=$x
--- 133,139 ----
      quit
    fi
  
!   x=`strings $LIBC | grep 'GNU C Library' | sed -e 's/.*version //' -e 's/,/ /' | awk '{print $1}'`

    if test -n "$x" ; then
      GLIBC_VERSION=$x
*** install_mpich       2010-05-11 17:34:09.132871887 -0700
--- install_mpich.new   2010-05-11 17:34:22.252883448 -0700
***************
*** 1,4 ****
! #! /bin/sh 

  ##
  ## Copyright 1990-2000, The Portland Group, Incorporated.
--- 1,4 ----
! #! /bin/bash

  ##
  ## Copyright 1990-2000, The Portland Group, Incorporated.
7

Thanks for the patch!

In my attempt though, copying and pasting the patch from the forum left trailing spaces on every line… Took me some time to notice that and get the patch to work. Just writing this in case anyone else experiences the same issue.

8

That patch installed but did not work for me. I ran the patch with and without the dry_run flags, reinstalled and then upon using the compiler, I first get:
pgfortran-Error-Please run makelocalrc to complete your installation
Then form ./makelocalrc -x /opt/pgi/linux86-64/10.5
ERROR: unknown glibc version (stable).

I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 also