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@sourishbasu
sourishbasu
mannequin
opened on Oct 14, 2021
BPO 45477
Nosy @tiran
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  • config.log
  • conftest.o
  • conftest.c
  • conftest_unoptimized.o
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created_at = <Date 2021-10-14.21:19:53.235>
labels = ['build', 'expert-installation', '3.10']
title = 'configure script cannot detect float word ordering on linux'
updated_at = <Date 2021-10-22.22:49:31.555>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/sourishbasu'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue45477'
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    1. sourishbasu commented on Oct 14, 2021

      @sourishbasu
      sourishbasumannequin
      on Oct 14, 2021
      MannequinAuthor

      I am trying to compile Python 3.10.0 on a Red Hat linux system with intel C/C++ compilers. This is my configure command:

      ./configure --with-computed-gotos --without-gcc --with-ensurepip=install --enable-optimizations --with-libm=-limf --with-cxx-main=icpc --with-threads --enable-ipv6 --with-signal-module CC=icc CXX=icpc LD=xild AR=xiar LIBS='-lpthread -limf -lirc' CFLAGS='-O3 -fPIC -fp-model strict -fp-model source -axCORE-AVX512,CORE-AVX2 -xAVX -ipo -prec-div -prec-sqrt' LDFLAGS='-ipo' CPP='icc -E'

      The failure comes as follows:

      checking for --with-libm=STRING... set LIBM="-limf"
checking for --with-libc=STRING... default LIBC=""
checking for x64 gcc inline assembler... yes
checking whether float word ordering is bigendian... unknown
configure: error:

Unknown float word ordering. You need to manually preset
ax_cv_c_float_words_bigendian=no (or yes) according to your system.

      I saw bpo-38527 was fixed in 3.10. Perhaps fixing it on Solaris broke it on some other platforms?

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    3. tiran commented on Oct 15, 2021

      @tiran
      tiran
      on Oct 15, 2021
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      Python uses the AX_C_FLOAT_WORDS_BIGENDIAN macro from autoconf-archive to detect byte order of floats. You can find the code at https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_c_float_words_bigendian.html .

      Please attach your config.log file and the conftest.o output file of the follow command:

      $ cat > conftest.c << EOF
double d = 90904234967036810337470478905505011476211692735615632014797120844053488865816695273723469097858056257517020191247487429516932130503560650002327564517570778480236724525140520121371739201496540132640109977779420565776568942592.0;
EOF
$ icc -c conftest.c

    4. sourishbasu commented on Oct 16, 2021

      @sourishbasu
      sourishbasumannequin
      on Oct 16, 2021
      MannequinAuthor

      See attached my config log.

      When I tried to compile conftest.c with 'icc -c conftest.c', it produced 'conftest.o' without any errors.

    5. tiran commented on Oct 17, 2021

      @tiran
      tiran
      on Oct 17, 2021
      Member

      Please build conftest.o with compiler flags

      icc -c -O3 -fPIC -fp-model strict -fp-model source -axCORE-AVX512,CORE-AVX2 -xAVX -ipo -prec-div -prec-sqrt

      and attach the file.

    6. sourishbasu commented on Oct 17, 2021

      @sourishbasu
      sourishbasumannequin
      on Oct 17, 2021
      MannequinAuthor

      I executed:

      $ icc -c -O3 -fPIC -fp-model strict -fp-model source -axCORE-AVX512,CORE-AVX2 -xAVX -ipo -prec-div -prec-sqrt conftest.c

      and conftest.o was built without errors. It has one symbol, as expected:

      $ nm conftest.o
                 U __must_be_linked_with_icc_or_xild
0000000000000000 D d

    7. tiran commented on Oct 20, 2021

      @tiran
      tiran
      on Oct 20, 2021
      Member

      Please upload and attach the .o file to this bug. I need to see the content of the file.

    8. sourishbasu commented on Oct 20, 2021

      @sourishbasu
      sourishbasumannequin
      on Oct 20, 2021
      MannequinAuthor

      conftest.o attached

    9. sourishbasu commented on Oct 20, 2021

      @sourishbasu
      sourishbasumannequin
      on Oct 20, 2021
      MannequinAuthor

      conftest.c attached

    10. tiran commented on Oct 20, 2021

      @tiran
      tiran
      on Oct 20, 2021
      Member

      Your conftest.o does not contain the magic string "seesnoon". Either ICC uses a different serialization format or your CFLAGS optimize the value away.

      Please run

      icc -c -o conftest_unoptimized.o conftest.c

      and upload "conftest_unoptimized.o".

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