[Mochi-devel] building against Merury origin/master, upcoming changes

[Phil Carns]

Hi all,

If you have tried to build Margo against Mercury's origin/master lately, 
then you've already noticed that this doesn't work at the moment :)  The 
short term fix is to use revision 
6c82baf7819a553b6b8235fbe7c180989a1e17fe of Mercury, before the changes 
landed that broke the Margo library.

We are working on a solution that will get origin/master of Margo and 
Mercury back in sync, and also generally improve how Margo multiplexes 
services.  This is actually one of 3 changes we are working on at the 
moment to improve general maintenance and deployment of Margo (and thus 
several other Mochi components):

1) see above, fix multiplexing in Margo and bring it back in sync with 
Mercury

2) eliminate abt-snoozer dependency.  We are working on upstreaming the 
capability we need in origin/master of Argobots if we can

3) eliminate boost dependency.  We are investigating the possibility of 
embedding the subset of boost headers that Mercury needs into the 
Mercury repo so that it no longer needs an external boost install

At any rate, the upshot is: Please pardon our dust, it will be better 
soon, use an older revision of Mercury for now, and we'll let you know 
when things are fixed!

thanks,

-Phil