Just so you know, with the configure script, when I try and compile
with IBM compilers, it dies on "checking size of bool" where it gets a
value of -1. Previous LAM versions have no problem with it of course.
--
Jonathan Herriott
Architecture and Performance Group
Apple Computer, Inc.
On Feb 8, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Eiso AB wrote:
>
>> /software/bin/cyana2Jonathan Herriott wrote:
>>> Scratch that. Apparently the script that was written to run this
>>> benchmark (I didn't write it) was used under csh, which seems to
>>> have a problem with redirecting a file as input to an MPI
>>> application. I don't know exactly why, but when I rewrote the
>>> script in sh, it is actually running.
>> unfortunately it's already in sh
>>
>> I was wondering, is it necessary to specify at lam/mpirun compile time
>> if you're going to use rsh or ssh?
>
> You can specify the default, but you can override that at run-time
> with the LAMRSH environment variable.
>
> Keep in mind that LAM's mpirun does not use rsh or ssh -- it uses the
> LAM daemons. The LAM daemons are initially setup with rsh, ssh, or
> one of several other remote agent technologies (e.g., bproc, SLURM,
> PBS).
>
> So if you're able to lamboot, then you rsh/ssh issues are working
> properly.
>
> stdin is a different issue altogether, and unfortunately, at least
> partially out fault. :-(
>
> We accidentally broke stdin forwarding in v7.1. It is not fixed in
> 7.1.1, but is fixed in subversion and our nightly tarballs (i.e., what
> will shortly become 7.1.2). You can download and try that:
> http://www.lam-mpi.org/svn/ -- this tarball is what will shortly
> become 7.1.2.
>
> We mainly only have doc fixes left for 7.1.2, but we were testing the
> newest version of Libtool (1.5.12) and found a problem with how it
> links threading libraries (see
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-02/msg00058.html).
> There will be a new release of Libtool (v1.5.14), but it won't happen
> until this upcoming weekend at the earliest, meaning that it'll take
> us at least a little more time (assuming everything else goes well)
> before we can release 7.1.2.
>
> --
> {+} Jeff Squyres
> {+} jsquyres_at_[hidden]
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