I vote for it. - Galen
On 10/11/07 5:32 PM, "George Bosilca" <bosi...@eecs.utk.edu> wrote: > Sounds perfect. I'll vote for it. > > Thanks, > george. > > On Oct 11, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > >> On Oct 11, 2007, at 5:17 PM, George Bosilca wrote: >> >>> I know that [with few exception] nobody cares about our Windows >>> support, but we finally have a working Open MPI software stack >>> there and this approach will definitively break our "Unix like" >>> friendliness on Windows. >>> >>> As a temporary solution and until we can figure out how many people >>> use mpicc (and friends) on Windows, I suggest we keep around the >>> old wrapper compilers, together with the new shell scripts. >> >> Sounds reasonable. It would not be [too] difficult to have the build >> system do the following: >> >> - install the binaries to mpicc.exe (and friends) >> - install the shell scripts to mpicc.sh (or mpicc.pl or whatever >> suffix is appropriate for the scripting language that is used) >> - make sym links from $bindir/mpicc to $bindir/mpicc.sh (as the >> default), or $bindir/mpicc to $bindir/mpicc.exe if building or >> windows (or explicitly asked for via a configure --with kind of >> option) >> >> Hence, everyone will see "mpicc", but the back-end technology may be >> different. >> >> >>> Thanks, >>> george. >>> >>> On Oct 11, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Richard Graham wrote: >>> >>>> What: Change the mpicc/mpicxx/mpif77/mpif90 from being binaries >>>> to being >>>> shell scripts >>>> >>>> Why: Our build environment assumes that wrapper compilers will use >>>> the same >>>> binary format that the Open MPI libraries do. In cross-compile >>>> environment, >>>> the MPI wrapper compilers will run on the front-end and need to >>>> run on the >>>> front-end, and not the back-end. Jeff has suggested this as the >>>> simplest >>>> way to build back-end libraries, and front-end wrapper-compilers. >>>> >>>> When: within the next several weeks (for the 1.3 release) >>>> >>>> Timeout: 10/19/2007 >>>> >>>> >>>> Rich >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> devel mailing list >>>> de...@open-mpi.org >>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devel mailing list >>> de...@open-mpi.org >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >> >> >> -- >> Jeff Squyres >> Cisco Systems >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> de...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel
