[ITP] openmpi-1.6.3-2

[marco atzeri]

On 11/8/2012 10:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov  3 19:52, marco atzeri wrote:
>> Hi,
>> intention to package the
>>
>> OpenMPI: A High Performance Message Passing Library
>>
>> http://www.open-mpi.org/
>>
>> already present in all major disti's.
>>
>> To download (remove the index.html's) :
>>
>> wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=1 \
>> http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin-1.7/openmpi/index.html
>>
>> find openmpi -name index.html -o -name md5.sum | xargs rm
>>
>> Filelist:
>> libopenmpi/libopenmpi-1.6.3-2.tar.bz2
>> libopenmpi/setup.hint
>> libopenmpi-devel/libopenmpi-devel-1.6.3-2.tar.bz2
>> libopenmpi-devel/setup.hint
>> openmpi-1.6.3-2-src.tar.bz2
>> openmpi-1.6.3-2.tar.bz2
>> setup.hint
>>
>> ADVISE:
>>
>> 1)   Cygserver is required to provide IPC shared memory
>>       otherwise the programs will fail as:
>>
>>       $ mpirun -n 4 ./hello_c.exe
>>       Bad system call
>
> Ideally the openmpi package would allow to use POSIX IPC rather than XSI
> IPC.  POSIX IPC doesn't require a server process.  If there's a
> configure option to that effect, I'd use it.  Otherwise, just add a
> README to tell the user about the dependency.

thanks for suggestion, I will look on configuration flag.

>
>> 2)   Binary are not stripped as otherwise they will be not
>>       functional. Reason to be determined.
>
> Stuff like that is seriously fishy.  What happens?

no message and never completes. I need to extend debugging to understand 
the matter.

>
>
> Corinna