HiFiLES Installation Problem

[BenjaminDai]

Does anyone have ever successfully installed HiFiLES, if you did, Please do give me some advice or tutorial. I've tried so many times installing HiFiLES, with or without mpi, it failed anyway. kind of frustrating. My PC system is Ubuntu 18.04. I've installed OpenFOAM, SU2, etc successfully one or two month ago. And I've install autoconf with linux shell command "sudo apt-get install autoconf", ATLAS with "sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev". I have already installed openmpi library long time ago. When I tried to compile HiFiLES with BLAS and MPI, i edit file configure_run.sh, changed the location of header file and library file of ATLAS and openmpi. Then i typed "bash configure_run.sh" in a terminal, it went almost well. But when i typed "make", i encountered various errors, such as "no rule to make parmetis...". So i switched to compilation without BLAS and MPI, i changed to root user with "su root" command, and typed "./configure" and "make" in the terminal, and i got an error message with "make". Can anyone kindly give me some advice on this error message, or give me a tutorial on installation of HiFiLES. Thanks in advance. root@dwh-virtual-machine:/home/dwh/software/HiFiLES-solver-master# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 <<< Configuring library with Metis support >>> checking for thread local storage (TLS) class... __thread checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking how to print strings... printf checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm checking whether ln -s works... yes checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864 checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for objdump... objdump checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking for dlltool... no checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n checking for ar... ar checking for archiver @FILE support... @ checking for strip... strip checking for ranlib... ranlib checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for sysroot... no checking for mt... mt checking if mt is a manifest tool... no checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for objdir... .libs checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64 checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... (cached) GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating obj/Makefile config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands

Build Configuration Summary:

Source code location: /home/dwh/software/HiFiLES-solver-master
Install location:     /usr/local
Version:              0.1
Code Type:            DEBUG
Compiler:             g++
Preprocessor flags:    -D_NO_BLAS -DNO_PARMETIS -D_CPU 
Compiler flags:       -g -O2 
Linker flags:           
Libraries:              
BLAS support:         NO
MPI support:          NO
CUDA support:         NO 
TecIO support:        NO

Additionally, don't forget to set the environment variable HIFILES_HOME root@dwh-virtual-machine:/home/dwh/software/HiFiLES-solver-master# make CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash /home/dwh/software/HiFiLES-solver-master/missing --run aclocal-1.11 -I m4 /home/dwh/software/HiFiLES-solver-master/missing: 行 52: aclocal-1.11: command not found WARNING: aclocal-1.11' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modifiedacinclude.m4' or configure.ac'. You might want to install theAutomake' and Perl' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. cd . && /bin/bash /home/dwh/software/HiFiLES-solver-master/missing --run automake-1.11 --foreign /home/dwh/software/HiFiLES-solver-master/missing: 行 52: automake-1.11: command not found WARNING:automake-1.11' is missing on your system. You should only need it if you modified Makefile.am',acinclude.m4' or configure.ac'. You might want to install theAutomake' and `Perl' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site. CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash /home/dwh/software/HiFiLES-solver-master/missing --run autoconf configure.ac:30: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:122: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL configure.ac:413: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O configure.ac:414: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL Makefile:338: recipe for target 'configure' failed make: *** [configure] Error 1

[JacobCrabill]

I'm guessing the issue may be related to the very old version of Automake this was written for. Make sure you have automake, autoconf, libtool, etc. all installed, then give autoreconf a try. Also make sure you have a METIS library installed.

HiFiLES hasn't been developed in many years now; I would suggest you try a more fully-featured solver like https://github.com/PyFR/PyFR. We also have a somewhat more recent and similar code, ZEFR, that @romerojosh could possibly make available to you for research purposes if desired.

[BenjaminDai]

Jacob, Thanks for your answer. By the way, have LES code been implemented in PyFR or ZEFR?

[JacobCrabill]

Not that I am aware of; the typical approach used with codes like these is to perform "implicit" LES, where the "implicit" comes from assuming that the amount of numerical dissipation introduced by your grid is on the order of the dissipation added by an explicit LES filter you might use.