Ashley Pittman wrote:
I've seen several cases now where people have functional, installed MPI
libraries yet when they've come to use padb they have discovered a build
problem with the Message Queue DLL which prevents it from working.
The cases I've seen this happen is with the Sun Studio compiler when a
source file pulls in a header that defines an inline static function
that uses some extern symbols but the inline static function itself is
never used. For some reason Sun Studio (I believe I've seen another
compiler do this also pgi or pathscale I think) decides to make those
extern symbols unresolved instead of just ignoring them.
The current trunk and 1.5 branch should have this issue extricated from
it. However, this seems to always creep in every so often. So the
below test is greatly appreciated. Also, have you ran this test against
the trunk and 1.5, yet (is my belief of things are clean there correct)?
thanks,
--td
The most common problem is unresolved symbols in the dll meaning the
debugger cannot dlopen it or in some cases can only dlopen it with
RTLD_LAZY which introduces other problems.
Attached is a patch to the OpenMPI sources which adds a simple test
program, to be built and run as part of the build procedure that
verifies the dll can be loaded without error.
The test program itself is good, I'm less happy about the autoconf
integration, it adds a check-local target in the debuggers makefile (the
only one in the source tree) which fails if there is a problem with the
DLL, this causes "make check" to fail however this isn't run by either
"make" or "make install". As such it's a step forward but it would be
better if the test was performed in the make stage, I haven't figured
out how to do this however.
Ashley,
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