I've poked enough at the ompi configure magic to *think* I understand
the source of the problem I've seen w/ both trunk and 1.5.x on the Altix.
The problem appears to be that both timer/altix/configure.m4 and
timer/linux/configure.m4 are setting the value of $timer_base_include
and the LAST on
I've configured the ompi trunk (nightly tarball 1.7a1r25927) on an SGI
Altix.
I used no special arguments indicating that this is an Altix, and there
does not appear to be an altix-specific file in contrib/platform.
My build fails as follows:
make: Entering directory
> `/mnt/home/c_phargrov/OMPI/