New subject: Failure on the koji f36-rebuild target: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open linker script file /builddir/build/BUILD/.package_note...: No such file or directory

22 Jan 2022


      Initially the ga package (https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ga) failed during the f36 mass rebuild,
by failing on some numerical tests "zdot wrong".
The failed build is here http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1882845
However, when trying to reproduce the failure on koji with `koji build --nowait --scratch --arch-override x86_64 f36-rebuild`
(see https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81666698) the compilation does not start now, due to an error
"checking whether the C compiler works... no".
This "checking whether the C compiler works... no" seems to appear also on other architectures and on rawhide,
for example on x86_64 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81667977 aarch64 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81667999
or i686 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81668008
The ga package still builds and passes tests on f35 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81666691
Further debugging the f36-rebuild x86_64 target on koji with `cat config.log`, shows (see https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=81670300)
```
...
configure:4773: checking for mpicc
configure:4789: found /usr/lib64/mpich/bin/mpicc
configure:4800: result: mpicc
configure:4831: checking for C compiler version
configure:4840: mpicc --version >&5
gcc (GCC) 12.0.1 20220118 (Red Hat 12.0.1-0)
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
configure:4851: $? = 0
configure:4840: mpicc -v >&5
mpicc for MPICH version 3.4.1
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/12/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --enable-bootstrap --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,ada,go,d,lto --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --enable-multilib --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --with-gcc-major-version-only --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-plugin --enable-initfini-array --with-isl=/builddir/build/BUILD/gcc-12.0.1-20220118/obj-x86_64-redhat-linux/isl-install --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-offload-defaulted --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-cet --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto --enable-link-serialization=1
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 12.0.1 20220118 (Red Hat 12.0.1-0) (GCC) 
... rest of stderr output deleted ...
configure:4851: $? = 0
configure:4840: mpicc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option '-V'
configure:4851: $? = 1
configure:4840: mpicc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option '-qversion'; did you mean '--version'?
configure:4851: $? = 1
configure:4871: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:4893: mpicc  -O2 -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -g -grecord-gcc-switches -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1 -fstack-protector-strong -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -m64  -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection  -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed  -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1  -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -Wl,-dT,/builddir/build/BUILD/.package_note-ga-5.7.2-8.fc36.x86_64.ld conftest.c -lscalapack -lflexiblas >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open linker script file /builddir/build/BUILD/.package_note-ga-5.7.2-8.fc36.x86_64.ld: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:4897: $? = 1
configure:4935: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "Global Arrays (GA)"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "ga"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "5.7.1"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "Global Arrays (GA) 5.7.1"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "hpctools@pnl.gov"
| #define PACKAGE_URL "http://hpc.pnl.gov/globalarrays/"
| #define LINUX 1
| #define SYSV 1
| #define PACKAGE "ga"
| #define VERSION "5.7.1"
| #define MSG_COMMS_MPI 1
| #define ENABLE_PEIGS 0
| #define ENABLE_EISPACK 0
| #define ENABLE_PROFILING 0
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:4940: error: in `/builddir/build/BUILD/ga-5.7.2/ga-5.7.2-mpich':
configure:4942: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
...
```