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Asked: 2026-06-18T01:22:32+00:00

I’m trying to install a program (the Parallel Ice Sheet Model, or PISM) which

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I’m trying to install a program (the Parallel Ice Sheet Model, or PISM) which uses MPI. I keep running into the errors

libpismutil.so: undefined reference to `ompi_mpi_cxx_op_intercept'
libpismutil.so: undefined reference to `MPI::Datatype::Free()'
libpismutil.so: undefined reference to `MPI::Comm::Comm()'
libpismutil.so: undefined reference to `MPI::Win::Free()'

when linking a CXX executable. I’m sort of stumped as to why this is occurring; the configuration for the program found where all of the MPI executables and libraries are located.

In another thread, someone suggested that this is due to different naming conventions when MPI is built with Fortran or C, but seeing as I have both mpicc.mpich2 and mpif90.mpich2 in my /usr/bin I would think this wouldn’t be a problem.

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  1. Editorial Team

    After much consternation, I’ve found the culprit. The program I’m trying to install uses a library for scientific computation called PETSc; the standard install of PETSc doesn’t generate the shared object files needed by PISM, you have to explicitly tell it to make them. Once this was done, PISM installed correctly.

    Of course, I was unable to run it because of some other obscure error with openmpi, but that’s a story for another thread.

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