[Darshan-users] Darshan and AIX?

[Rob Latham]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:51:45AM +0100, Julian Kunkel wrote:
> Hi,
> has anyone suceeded or experience to compile Darshan on an AIX (6.1)
> system so far?
> 
> One problem seems to be that mpicc is used to compile the particular test for:
> checking size of long int... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (long int)
> However, running an MPI executable is not possible (easily) on the login node.

one way around that is to put configure into cross compile mode with
the --build and --host flags.  kind of icky but will at least use
compile-time only tests.  we might have other configure tests that
execute code, and cross compile mode will find those as well.

> I'm not so sure about the wrap (linker) flag used to intercept calls,
> probably another method is required in AIX, so I would be glad about
> experience from other AIX users.

I think you're it, Julian.  

==rob

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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA