Issue
I am trying to build Parsec_3.0 dedup workload on skylake server with gcc (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1) 6.3.0. I managed to build streamcluster and canneal successfully without issues, however with dedup I get the error, when using same command: parsecmgmt -a build -p dedup
ERROR:
installing man1/smime.1
smime.pod around line 272: Expected text after =item, not a number
same with lines: 276, 280, 285, 289
POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 70.
make: *** [install_docs] Error 255
Makefile:680: recipe for target 'install_docs' failed
[PARSEC] Error: env PATH=/usr/bin:/home/akhorguani/parsec/parsec-3.0/bin:/usr/lo
cal/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin:/opt/dell/srvadmin/b
in:/usr/local/cuda/bin:/grid5000/code/bin:/home/akhorguani/parsec/parsec-3.0/bin
/usr/bin/make install failed.
In /usr/bin/pod2man line 70 is " print " $files[1]\n" if $verbose; ". But it's predefined file from the host machine so I don't think it would contain errors, most likely I might need to change something in parsec files.
So maybe anyone had faced the same problem and can help to fix it?
Solution
As jww mentioned, the error is due to some syntax errors on POD files from the SSL library that parsec uses. I had the same error and managed to build by replacing all instances of =item followed by a number with =item C<Number> in the POD files.
The files you need to modify are on the following folders:
$ folder-where-you-installed-parsec/pkgs/libs/ssl/src/doc/apps
$ folder-where-you-installed-parsec/pkgs/libs/ssl/src/doc/ssl
You can see the changes you need to do in this github gist.
I did the changes by hand but you can probably make a script that reads the files and fixes it for you.
I believe that the issue is platform specific because my colleague built it without any problems with Manjaro linux, while I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.
Answered By - Eduardo macedo Answer Checked By - Gilberto Lyons (WPSolving Admin)