under ubuntu configure error, need help

[gaowayne]

my ubuntu is 22.04.4

root@hpeesx01-salab:/mnt/nvme2n1/wayne/ior# uname -a
Linux hpeesx01-salab 5.15.0-106-generic #116-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 09:17:56 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@hpeesx01-salab:/mnt/nvme2n1/wayne/ior# 

root@hpeesx01-salab:/mnt/nvme2n1/wayne/ior# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

error log:

root@hpeesx01-salab:/mnt/nvme2n1/wayne/ior# ./configure
checking metadata... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking for mpicc... mpicc
checking for gcc... (cached) mpicc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/mnt/nvme2n1/wayne/ior':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
root@hpeesx01-salab:/mnt/nvme2n1/wayne/ior# 

Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 11.4.0 (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04)
... rest of stderr output deleted ...
configure:4300: $? = 0
configure:4289: mpicc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:4300: $? = 1
configure:4289: mpicc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option '-qversion'; did you mean '--version'?
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:4300: $? = 1
configure:4289: mpicc -version >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option '-version'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:4300: $? = 1
configure:4320: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:4342: mpicc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmpi: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lopen-rte: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lopen-pal: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lhwloc: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -levent_core: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -levent_pthreads: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:4346: $? = 1

[JulianKunkel]

It seems that the installation of MPI is not complete/misses something or is confused.
If you like OpenMPI for example install:

openmpi-bin
libopenmpi-dev

I would also recommend not to compile as root.