Re: [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread Paul H. Hargrove
Brian Barrett wrote: > On Jul 14, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> Please let us (ie Debian's openmpi maintainers) how else we can >> help. I am >> ccing the porters lists (for hppa, m68k, mips) too to invite them >> to help. I >> hope that doesn't get the spam filters

Re: [OMPI devel] lsf support / farm use models

2007-07-14 Thread Ralph Castain
Welcome! Yes, Jeff and I have been working on the LSF support based on 7.0 features in collab with the folks at Platform. Some further comments below... Ralph On 7/14/07 2:02 PM, "Matthew Moskewicz" wrote: > hi everyone, > > firstly, i'm new around here, and

Re: [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread Brian Barrett
the availability of functionality is set by the header files for each platform, not by configure. So we'd have to play some games to get at the information, but it should be possible. Brian On Jul 14, 2007, at 12:41 PM, George Bosilca wrote: Brian, We should be able to use these defines

[OMPI devel] lsf support / farm use models

2007-07-14 Thread Matthew Moskewicz
hi everyone, firstly, i'm new around here, and somewhat clueless when it comes to the details of working with an big autoconfiscated project like open-rte/open-mpi the svn checkout level ... i've read some of the archives that turned up in searches for terms like 'LSF', and it would seem there

Re: [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread George Bosilca
If the OMPI_HAVE_THREAD_SUPPORT is not set the LIFO fall back to a default version where atomic operations are not required. We can even remove the dependency on the atomic.h header if the thread support is not enabled. Unfortunately, our shared memory device require the atomic operations

Re: [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread Brian Barrett
On Jul 14, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:16:42PM -0400, George Bosilca wrote: Instead of failing at configure time, we might want to disable the threading features and the shared memory device if we detect that we don't have support for atomics on a

Re: [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:16:42PM -0400, George Bosilca wrote: > Instead of failing at configure time, we might want to disable the > threading features and the shared memory device if we detect that we > don't have support for atomics on a specified platform. In a non > threaded build, the

Re: [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread George Bosilca
Instead of failing at configure time, we might want to disable the threading features and the shared memory device if we detect that we don't have support for atomics on a specified platform. In a non threaded build, the shared memory device is the only place where we need support for

Re: [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Brian, On 14 July 2007 at 10:47, Brian Barrett wrote: | On Jul 14, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | > Please let us (ie Debian's openmpi maintainers) how else we can | > help. I am | > ccing the porters lists (for hppa, m68k, mips) too to invite them | > to help. I | >

Re: [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread Brian Barrett
On Jul 14, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Methinks we need to fill in a few blanks here, or make do with non-asm solutions. I don't know the problem space that well (being a maintainer rather than upstream developer) and am looking for guidance. Either way is an option. There

Re: [OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread Brian Barrett
On Jul 14, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Please let us (ie Debian's openmpi maintainers) how else we can help. I am ccing the porters lists (for hppa, m68k, mips) too to invite them to help. I hope that doesn't get the spam filters going... I may contact the 'arm' porters

[OMPI devel] Build failures of 1.2.3 on Debian hppa, mips, mipsel, s390, m68k

2007-07-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi folks, The 'new' Open MPI packages for Debian that are maintained by a few of us via a group on alioth.debian.org have now [1] reached the main distribution. This means they are being built on all supported architecture and logs accumulate at