Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-17 Thread Jeff Squyres
'tis already in the README. Someday we'll have nice glossy PDF's like LAM, but for the beta, the README is what you get. :-) On Jun 17, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Ben Allan wrote: Please paste the quoted text (appropriately expanded) into a readme or install or some other prominent doc location/app

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-17 Thread Ben Allan
Please paste the quoted text (appropriately expanded) into a readme or install or some other prominent doc location/appendix as soon as possible if it isn't there already. Details like this matter a lot to a few of us, and many of us haven't drunk completely the 3000 gallons of twisted logic that

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-16 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Ben Allan wrote: The *only* flag that mpicc (and friends) recognizes is --showme. *Everything* else is passed to the underlying compiler. We didn't want to take the chance, for example, that --help was actually a valid flag for the underlying compiler. So is thi

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-16 Thread Ben Allan
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:33:51PM -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Jun 16, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Ben Allan wrote: > > The only reason to have something like ompiConf.sh is to use the > frameworks that already exist (like the gnome-conf thingy). I was only > tossing that out as an example -- I didn'

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-16 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 16, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Ben Allan wrote: Ah -- I thought that that would be a different issue (I presume you're speaking of the compile/lib flags command, like gnome-config et al.)...? Are you saying that the compile/lib flags should be accessible from ompi_info in a fine-grained fashion a

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-16 Thread Matthew Knepley
Ben Allan writes: > I tried that just now and it doesn't look different. Will check your > other mail (which apparently i haven't reached yet in the mail reader). > I take that back, apparently -parseable isn't recognized but -parsable > is. A :-separated output results. tolerable. :) > Kudos to y

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-16 Thread Ben Allan
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:27:58PM -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Jun 15, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Ben Allan wrote: > > Ah -- I thought that that would be a different issue (I presume you're > speaking of the compile/lib flags command, like gnome-config et > al.)...? Are you saying that the compile/l

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-15 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 15, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Ben Allan wrote: The ompi_info command was directly derived from the LAM/MPI laminfo command. However, I've never liked the fact that there's a "_" in the name. Should it be renamed? Options I see are: I, for obvious reasons (mainly to do with 'well, most projec

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-15 Thread Ben Allan
[an aside for the mailing list admin before the main message: I want to subscribe a secondary address and then check the box that says nomail in the mailman membership list. The secondary address can post mail but runs no server to accept inbound mail, which tends to squish the confirm portion of

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-15 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: bin/ompi_info presents an opportunity to help all us shlubs that have to do gnu build systems. BTW, I forgot to mention -- try running "ompi_info -all" and/or "ompi_info -all -parsable". It is explicitly aimed at those who need to query the c

Re: [O-MPI users] re build time

2005-06-15 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Jun 15, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Benjamin Allan wrote: bin/ompi_info presents an opportunity to help all us shlubs that have to do gnu build systems. Heh. So you got a bootleg Open MPI tarball after all! :-) (I'm actually in the middle of replying to your other post -- sometimes it takes me a