GEANT4 installation - CMake Error - CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Failed

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Hello GEANT4 installation specialists,

_Geant4 Version:_11.3.0
_Operating System:_Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8
_Compiler/Version:_gcc-native/13.2.0
_CMake Version:_cmake/3.27.2 (same problem with 3.20.2)

I have a problem when installing GEANT4 version 11.3.0. I tried to build and install GEANT4, but I encountered the following error during the build process:

-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD
-- Performing Test CMAKE_HAVE_LIBC_PTHREAD - Failed
-- Check if compiler accepts -pthread
-- Check if compiler accepts -pthread - yes
-- Found Threads: TRUE  
CMake Error at cmake/Modules/G4ConfigureGNUMakeHelpers.cmake:578 (get_filename_component):
  get_filename_component called with incorrect number of arguments
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/Modules/G4ConfigureGNUMakeHelpers.cmake:694 (_g4tc_configure_tc_variables)
  cmake/Modules/G4ConfigureGNUMakeHelpers.cmake:770 (_g4tc_configure_build_tree_scripts)
  cmake/Modules/G4CMakeMain.cmake:91 (include)
  CMakeLists.txt:49 (include)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
make: *** No rule to make target 'install'.  Stop.

Here is the GEANT4 installation script I use to perform the installation :

#!/bin/sh
. /XXX/Geant4/scripts/env_softstack.sh
export VERSION=11.3.0
export CC=gcc
export CXX=g++
cmake \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS='-std=gnu++11 -ftls-model=global-dynamic -pthread' \
-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \
-DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
-DGEANT4_USE_GDML=ON \
-DGEANT4_BUILD_MULTITHREADED=ON \
-DGEANT4_BUILD_TLS_MODEL=global-dynamic \
-DGEANT4_USE_SYSTEM_EXPAT=on \
-DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL=OFF \
-DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATADIR=${SOFTSTACK_HOME}/data/DATA_G4 \
-DXercesC_LIBRARY=${XERCES_HOME}/lib64/libxerces-c-3.2.so \
-DXercesC_INCLUDE_DIR=${XERCES_HOME}/include \
-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${XERCES_HOME} \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${SOFTSTACK_HOME}/install/geant4.${VERSION} \
${SOFTSTACK_HOME}/src/geant4.${VERSION}
make -j 1 
make install

I am running first env_softstack.sh to set variables for paths :

#!/bin/bash
export SOFTSTACK_HOME=/XXX/Geant4
module load cmake/3.27.2
module load gcc-native/13.2.0
export XERCES_HOME=${SOFTSTACK_HOME}/install/xerces-c-3.2.3/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${XERCES_HOME}/lib64:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export PATH=${XERCES_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
export GEANT4_HOME=${SOFTSTACK_HOME}/install/geant4.11.3.0/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${GEANT4_HOME}/lib64:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export PATH=${GEANT4_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

I would like to add that, I previously installed XERCES successfully. Additionally, with a very similar GEANT4 installation script that the one above, I was able to install the previous GEANT4 version 10.07.p01 few years ago, but I am stuck with this new 11.3.0 version.
Could anyone have the same issue regarding ‘pthread’?
If needed, I can also provide a CMakeError.log in using CMake 3.20.2.

Thank you so much for your time and help.

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Hi,

I had an issue with glibc and xerces on an old linux install - solved via using apptainer. It’s my only post here.

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Try to remove the obsolete redefinition of CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS in your script and simply use the default settings.

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Thank you very much for your response.

I tried removing the command CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS from my installation script as you mentioned, but I encountered the same issue.
I also tried removing the following line:
-DGEANT4_BUILD_TLS_MODEL=global-dynamic
Finally, I attempted to install with -DGEANT4_BUILD_MULTITHREADED=OFF ,
but I still face the same issue.

Do you have any other ideas about where the problem might be coming from?

Thank you so much for your time and help.

5

Thank you very much for the suggestion. I will look through it.

6

Though this is probably a minor bug in our CMake scripts, it caused by over specifying the paths to XercesC. Your installation script can be reduced to:

#!/bin/sh
. /XXX/Geant4/scripts/env_softstack.sh
export VERSION=11.3.0
export CC=gcc
export CXX=g++
cmake \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \
-DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
-DGEANT4_USE_GDML=ON \
-DGEANT4_BUILD_MULTITHREADED=ON \
-DGEANT4_BUILD_TLS_MODEL=global-dynamic \
-DGEANT4_USE_SYSTEM_EXPAT=ON \
-DGEANT4_USE_OPENGL=OFF \
-DGEANT4_INSTALL_DATADIR=${SOFTSTACK_HOME}/data/DATA_G4 \
-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${XERCES_HOME} \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${SOFTSTACK_HOME}/install/geant4.${VERSION} \
${SOFTSTACK_HOME}/src/geant4.${VERSION}
make -j 1 
make install