Updating Libmesh issue

[ahmad681]

Hi,
I am having a problem with compiling my code. Last night it was working great and I was getting great results. i havent changed anything since last night. Earlier this morning, I "make clean" and tried to compile and it keeps telling me
There appears to be a libMesh update in progress for
the branch of MOOSE you are operating on (only the
master branch contains publicly available moose-libmesh
packages).

You must provide your own libMesh either by:

1. Uninstall moose-libmesh and build it manually via
   moose/scripts/update_and_rebuild_libmesh.sh

or
2. Use conda build to build your own moose-libmesh
package.

/home/ahmad68/projects/moose/framework/moose.mk:15: *** Build failed. Stop.

I updated the libmesh by building my own libmesh, and still same error. Could you please help me with that?
Thanks

[ahmad681]

Note: I asked my groupmates, they have never faced this issue before. It doesn't make sense to me yet why I would have to update my library.
I updated it using this website https://mooseframework.inl.gov/moose/help/faq/faq_build_libmesh.html
but it still not working. I also updated Conda, still not working too and it gives me same messege.

[ahmad681]

By the way, I am using linux operating system

[GiudGiud]

did you remember to activate the moose conda envionment ? conda activate moose
this means a compiler flag passed is not understood by the compiler, so you are using the wrong compiller, not the one we provide with conda

[ahmad681]

Yes, I did conda activate moose

[ahmad681]

My groupmates use the same version of the code. They never had to update libmesh ever. I wonder why this happened to me also.

Also, I am using gcc 5.2.0 I thought any 5.15 and above is fine with conda.

[GiudGiud]

5.2 should be ok.
Everyone needs to update libmesh to use the version of moose. People do that through conda updates though, so it s pretty simple.

what does echo $CXX; which mpicxx return? I suspect it's set to your system compiler, not the one in conda.

If you want to use your own system compiler instead of the one we provide in the conda environment, then you need to edit the environment variable CPP_FLAGS to remove the no-plt flag, because your (old) compiler does not support it.
We set that flag for the conda build because we assume people are using the compilers conda installs.

[GiudGiud]

Any news on this?

[ahmad681]

Apparantely there was a problem with Conda installed on the cluster at my school. It seemed like it was compatible with gcc 4.8.5.
So I had to install miniconda and mpich because for some reason openmpi was not working properly. After installing the version miniconda and mpich specified on Moose website, it worked just fine.

[GiudGiud]

Great thanks for letting us know!
I'll add a little bit to the posting guidelines to reflect this