On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Christian Siebert wrote:
> I know that LAM/MPI is somehow superseded by OpenMPI. Nevertheless, I tried
> to build the latest release from the download section (lam-7.1.4.tar.bz2)
> with current GCC 4.3.1. Unfortunately, configure failed (no bool type for
> g++). A bit of investigation showed that several main statements (8 if I
> didn't miscount) in the configure test programs are defective. It should be
>
> "main(int argc, char *argv[])" or "main(int argc, char **argv)"
> and not
> "int main(int argc, char* argv)" or "main(int argc, char *argv)"
> (i.e. double star vs. single star)
>
> Several other tests, e.g. for templates, are just skipped and don't break the
> whole configure procedure. Still, I'm wondering why nobody else observed this
> problem ...
People have noticed the problem. It's been fixed in the SVN repository
and in the 7.1.5 beta releases available on the web site. We're just not
in a great hurry to release 7.1.5 at this point.
Brian
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Brian Barrett
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