I second the motion. -----Original Message----- From: devel [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Castain Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 8:43 AM To: Open MPI Developers Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] RFC: remove the --with-threads configure option
None that I can think of - I'd remove it On Sep 18, 2014, at 5:23 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote: > I'm unaware of a use case for --without-threads. > > Does anyone have one? > > If not, then I think removing all that dead code would be a Good Thing. > > > On Sep 18, 2014, at 7:03 AM, Gilles Gouaillardet > <gilles.gouaillar...@iferc.org> wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> for both trunk and v1.8 branch, configure takes the --with-threads option. >> valid usages are >> --with-threads, --with-threads=yes, --with-threads=posix and >> --with-threads=no >> >> /* v1.6 used to support the --with-threads=solaris */ >> >> if we try to configure with --with-threads=no, this will result in a >> fatal error : >> >> checking for working POSIX threads package... yes checking for type >> of thread support... none >> configure: error: User requested MPI threads, but no threading model >> supported >> >> bottom line, the --with-threads configure option is useless in both >> v1.8 and trunk. >> >> is there any plan to support --with-threads=no in the future ? >> if no, i'd like to simply remove the --with-threads option >> >> Thanks in advance for your feedback >> >> Gilles >> >> FYI >> there is still some dead code / bug related to solaris threads, and >> this will be removed / fixed see >> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/4911 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> de...@open-mpi.org >> Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >> Link to this post: >> http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/09/15865.php > > > -- > Jeff Squyres > jsquy...@cisco.com > For corporate legal information go to: > http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/09/15867.php _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@open-mpi.org Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel Link to this post: http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/09/15873.php
