Error building infomap via PyPI with GCC 4.8

[ulgenklc]

I'm trying to install infomap's python distribution on a conda environment in a linux cluster. pip install infomap yields the following error. Is there a way to install infomap via anaconda? I feel like that would solve the problem. If not, do you know why I'm getting this error?

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /projects/academic/smuldoon/bengieru/anaconda/envs/ulgenv/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-ins
tall-bmrmja7n/infomap/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-bmrmja7n/infomap/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);co
de=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-vyf5448r
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-bmrmja7n/infomap/
  Complete output (25 lines):
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7
  copying infomap.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7
  copying package_meta.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.7
  running egg_info
  writing infomap.egg-info/PKG-INFO
  writing dependency_links to infomap.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
  writing entry points to infomap.egg-info/entry_points.txt
  writing top-level names to infomap.egg-info/top_level.txt
  reading manifest file 'infomap.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
  reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
  writing manifest file 'infomap.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
  running build_ext
  building '_infomap' extension
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/src
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/src/core
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/src/io
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/src/utils
  gcc -pthread -B /projects/academic/smuldoon/bengieru/anaconda/envs/ulgenv/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -Iheaders -Iheaders/src -Iheaders/src/core -Iheaders/src/io -Iheaders/src/utils -I/projects/academic/smuldoon/bengieru/anaconda
/envs/ulgenv/include/python3.7m -c ./infomap_wrap.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.7/./infomap_wrap.o -DAS_LIB -DPYTHON -Wno-deprecated-register -std=c++
14
  gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-std=c++14’
  error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for infomap
  Running setup.py clean for infomap
Failed to build infomap

[antoneri]

Hi and thanks for reaching out!

Can you please specify which version of Python and GCC you are using?

There is an older unofficial version of Infomap on Conda, but we are not the maintainers of that version.

[ulgenklc]

Ahh I see. I can't use an unmaintained version then..

It's Python 3.7.9 and this is what gcc -v returns:

Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.5/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-
bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enab
le-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada,go,lto --enable-plugin 
--enable-initfini-array --disable-libgcj --with-isl=/builddir/build/BUILD/gcc-4.8.5-20150702/obj-x86_64-redhat-linux/isl-install --with-cloog=/builddir/b
uild/BUILD/gcc-4.8.5-20150702/obj-x86_64-redhat-linux/cloog-install --enable-gnu-indirect-function --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=x86-64 --build=x86_
64-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39) (GCC)

Thank you for the quick response!

[antoneri]

Noting that your GCC version is from 2015, and Infomap requires c++14, so that could be the problem.

See https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html for language support.

[ulgenklc]

Okay, I am gonna try to have GCC be updated and try again. I'll keep you updated.

Thank you!

Ülgen

[ulgenklc]

Like you said, it was because of the old version of GCC which was by default older version, when I load the newer version module, it is all built.

Thank you for your time!