On Thursday 24 June 2010, Marcel Loose wrote: > Oops! Forgot to CC to the list. > > > Hi Tod, > > I'll try to answer some of your questions below inline (I've snipped off > parts of your mail). We're also using a BlueGeneP, but not for so many > packages/executables as you probably do. > > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 01:02 -0700, Todd Gamblin wrote: > > Hi, > > -- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< -- > > > I was able to build with either if I just manually specified the > > > > compilers and linker like this: > > > env CC=gcc C++=g++ LD=ld ./bootstrap --prefix=${CMAKE_HOME} > > > > > > > > > env CC=xlc C++=xlC LD=xlC ./bootstrap --prefix=${CMAKE_HOME} > > That is probably the safest way to do it, anyways. You then have full > control over which compiler is used to build your stuff. > > > But It would've been nice if I didn't have to do all that. Is PPC > > Linux not used many other places anymore? I guess this is a > > sles10/ppc64 environment, so maybe that is throwing the script off. > > > > > > > > > > 2. The FindMPI module's library search breaks because the the > > cross-compiler name on BlueGene/P contains -l. Specifically, the GNU > > > > compute node compilers on BlueGene/P are named like this: > > > powerpc-bgp-linux-g++ > > > > And the FindMPI module claims that it can't find the '-inux-g++' > > library, or something similar. I was able to fix this by modifying > > FindMPI's search to look for -l only when it's followed by a space. > > This is a little worrisome because I think that is a standard gnu > > naming convention, so other platforms with compilers named blah-linux > > are going to have the same bug. > > That is a known bug. I've filed it in the bug tracker > http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=9093. I've also uploaded a patch > (take the second one), that fixes that problem.
In the bug report you say "This patch is NOT heavily tested!" Is this still true ? Alex _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake