What I need to know in the immediate future is: does this affect the new patch that we just put in the 1.6rc2 tarball?
http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2012/05/10968.php Meaning: I want to release 1.6 in the immediate future. Is this a blocker? If so, how fast can we get a fix? On May 2, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Evan Clinton wrote: > What I mean to say is that, as far as I can tell, in Open MPI's > configure stuff there's a switch based on what it detects the host > processor as (and this detection could be overridden by specifying the > --host= thing); this is probably not the best way to do it. > > (sorry for the double-post again, dangit) > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Evan Clinton <evan.m.clin...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>>> The Fedora guys are having trouble building the armv5tel variant (well, >>>> they did before this patch too, but... :) >>>> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=790343&name=build.log >>> >>> Ah, I think the problem is that the build system is not playing nicely >>> with cross-compiles (which it looks like that's doing (specifically, >>> in that case, compiling for armv5 on an armv7 box)). I think an >>> immediate workaround would be to do ./configure >>> --host=armv5tel-unknown-linux-gnueabi or similar (in addition to >>> specifying the target -march). I think you'd need to specify the >>> --host in a similar manner for any cross-compile of Open MPI? >> >> It's not cross compiling, it's native compile although it might be >> underlying armv7 device but it's running a armv5tel userspace. >> Ultimately for distribution compile platforms it should be paying >> attention to what the build system is telling it to compile for not >> the underlying device because it's built once and could be run on any >> number of devices. >> >> Peter -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/