Great, thank you! - D.
2012/9/9 Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>: > I see - I was trying to understand your question as I don't recall ever > encountering such a request before - to my knowledge, we have never supported > that option as it was never requested. > > I don't know how hard it would be to implement, but it looks like something > we could do for future releases, perhaps starting in the 1.7 series. I'll > have to look into it and discuss with a few people here and then get back to > you on it. > > > On Sep 9, 2012, at 8:02 AM, Dmitry N. Mikushin <maemar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Ralph, >> >> I'm working on trunk, or close to it. When configuring with >> --program-prefix=someprefix I get: >> >> configure: WARNING: *** The Open MPI configure script does not support >> --program-prefix, --program-suffix or --program-transform-name. Users >> are recommended to instead use --prefix with a unique directory and >> make symbolic links as desired for renaming. >> configure: error: *** Cannot continue >> >> This is what I meant by "disabled". >> >> And how --enable-orterun-prefix-by-default is involved? We just need >> an installation kept in separate folder to have uniquely named >> user-level wrappers, e.g. mpicc -> prefix-mpicc, etc., which correctly >> link to their local orte-wrapper. >> >> Thanks, >> - D. >> >> 2012/9/9 Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org>: >>> >>> On Sep 8, 2012, at 1:14 PM, "Dmitry N. Mikushin" <maemar...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Setting program prefix is disabled for OpenMPI compilation, could you >>>> please explain why? >>> >>> I'm not sure I understand - setting the prefix is most definitely enabled >>> and working. What version of OMPI are you concerned about? >>> >>>> >>>> Consider we want to make a package containing OpenMPI packed together >>>> with our open-source compiler, that is installable on arbitrary Linux >>>> system. In this case, it would be very handy to add some program >>>> prefix to guarantee no confusion with other possibly installed MPI >>>> implementations visible through $PATH. >>> >>> >>> Are you saying that --enable-orterun-prefix-by-default is inadequate? This >>> is the reason it exists - to avoid path confusion. If something further is >>> required, please let us know and we'll see what can be done. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> - D. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
