[MPICH] Q: Compiling MPICH2-1.0.2 with ch3:ssm with PGI compilers?

[Greg Lindahl]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:37:40PM -0400, Brian Dobbins wrote:

> PGC-F-0249-#error --  *** No atomic memory operation specified to
> implement busy locks *** (./mpidu_process_locks.h: 234)
> PGC/x86-64 Linux/x86-64 6.0-4: compilation aborted

Brian,

If I remember correctly, PGI doesn't implement inline assembly at
all. gcc, PathScale, and Intel all do. Your easiest path forward is to
use gcc+pgf to build MPICH, as there is nothing funky about
substituting C compilers.

-- greg