INL HPC MOOSE app compile issue

[ver2king]

Bug Description

I am an external user with access to INL HPC. I have my own MOOSE app which compiles fine in my local machine. However when I tried to access INL HPC and compiled my app, the following error message (image attached).

I tried to re-build moose itself with clusters as sawtooth1, sawtooth2, however the same error message occured.

Steps to Reproduce

The procedure I performed was as below.

1. Access INL HPC via RSA
2. ssh sawtooth1
3. module load use.moose moose-dev-openmpi/28a1964
4. cd ~/cluster_name/projects
5. Clone my MOOSE app from Github via SSH
6. moose-dev-shell
7. make -j8

Impact

As discussed above in the description and steps to re-produce. Note: I was an intern at INL during Summer 2024, and later I applied for an external account with a different username. Data form my intern account was transferred to this new external account (I'm not sure whether this is relevant, but I think it may give a context).

[Optional] Diagnostics

No response

[ver2king]

May anyone look into this issue for me? I have not figured out a solution by far.

[milljm]

Converting to a Discussion, as a solution will not involve any changes to actual MOOSE code.

It looks like you need to clean your build of MOOSE. It is the only explanation when running make in your application directory, and to be instructed on linking to a file(s) no longer present.

Lets start with cleaning moose, since you do not mention starting with a clean MOOSE clone (but you do mention starting with a clean application clone. This was the clue that told me you may have an older stale build of MOOSE.)

cd ~/cluster_name/projects/moose
git clean -xfd; git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -xfd

Do the same in your application, since you tried to build, and it failed. e.g now there are libraries that are tainted with information on linking to non-existing files in your application, just like MOOSE:

Caution

Perform a git add on any untracked files you may have, to save your work. As the following command WILL DELETE YOUR WORK IF YOU DO NOT:

Once you have saved your work, perform the clean command:

cd ~/cluster_name/projects/maxwell_potential
git clean -xfd

Now in a clean state, you may attempt to load up the appropriate moose-dev module, and run make again!