Python: gensim - clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]
While working through part 2 of Kaggle’s bag of words tutorial I needed to install the gensim library and initially ran into the following error:
$ pip install gensim
...
cc -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -g -Os -pipe -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -mno-fused-madd -DENABLE_DTRACE -DMACOSX -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wshorten-64-to-32 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch x86_64 -arch i386 -pipe -I/Users/markneedham/projects/neo4j-himym/himym/build/gensim/gensim/models -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -I/Users/markneedham/projects/neo4j-himym/himym/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include -c ./gensim/models/word2vec_inner.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.9-intel-2.7/./gensim/models/word2vec_inner.o
clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]
clang: note: this will be a hard error (cannot be downgraded to a warning) in the future
command 'cc' failed with exit status 1
an integer is required
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/markneedham/projects/neo4j-himym/himym/build/gensim/setup.py", line 166, in <module>
include_package_data=True,
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/Users/markneedham/projects/neo4j-himym/himym/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py", line 59, in run
return orig.install.run(self)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/install.py", line 573, in run
self.run_command('build')
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build.py", line 127, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/Users/markneedham/projects/neo4j-himym/himym/build/gensim/setup.py", line 71, in run
"There was an issue with your platform configuration - see above.")
TypeError: an integer is required
----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command /Users/markneedham/projects/neo4j-himym/himym/bin/python -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/Users/markneedham/projects/neo4j-himym/himym/build/gensim/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/sb/6zb6j_7n6bz1jhhplc7c41n00000gn/T/pip-i8aeKR-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /Users/markneedham/projects/neo4j-himym/himym/include/site/python2.7 failed with error code 1 in /Users/markneedham/projects/neo4j-himym/himym/build/gensim
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/markneedham/.pip/pip.logThe exception didn’t make much sense to me but I came across a blog post which explained it:</p>
The Apple LLVM compiler in Xcode 5.1 treats unrecognized command-line options as errors. This issue has been seen when building both Python native extensions and Ruby Gems, where some invalid compiler options are currently specified.
The author suggests this only became a problem with XCode 5.1 so I’m surprised I hadn’t come across it sooner since I haven’t upgraded XCode in a long time.
We can work around the problem by telling the compiler to treat extra command line arguments as a warning rather than an error ~bash export ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future ~
Now it installs with no problems.
About the author
I'm currently working on short form content at ClickHouse. I publish short 5 minute videos showing how to solve data problems on YouTube @LearnDataWithMark. I previously worked on graph analytics at Neo4j, where I also co-authored the O'Reilly Graph Algorithms Book with Amy Hodler.