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From: Joost de Greef (taksys_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-19 14:53:40


>> I'm trying to make a lam version that differs from
>> the one that is installed by default on the cluster I
>> have to use. Compiling with --program-suffix=-lam nicely
>> adds -lam to all the executables, but for some reason lam
>> still looks for some executables without the extension.
>
> LAM/MPI currently does not support the use of the program transform
> features of configure. Unfortunately, there's no way to get rid of
> the options (that I'm aware of), as some macro we uses requires the
> macro that provides those configure options. To be honest, no one
> has asked about it in the last many years, so it's never really
> popped up on our radar to look at. I'm taking a look at supporting
> the program name transform features in 7.1.2, but I can't make any
> promises.
how much work would implementing (in a shortcut fashion) this myself be?
it seems all the executable names are tucked away in defines
in lam-7.1.2b27/share/include. would i get anywhere by just
changing DEFTRESETH, DEFTHBOOT, etc?

> Until then, our only recommendation is to not use the
> program transform options to configure.
thank you for the advice.

have a nice day!
Joost.