[MPICH] MPICH2 BUG: SEEK_SET, etc.

[James S Perrin]

Hi,
	If you read the user guide under section 5.3 Special Issues for C++ it tells 
you there is a define to negate this problem.

Add this to you compile command

-DMPICH_IGNORE_CXX_SEEK

Regards
James


James Frye wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There seems to be a fairly major problem problem with the MPICH2 C++
> compiler, which is breaking a lot of our code.  The problem is the we get
> a error messages that SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, and SEEK_END are defined - which
> of course they are in stdio.h, and need to be so that we can do binary
> file I/O.  But your compiler says that they must not be for the C++
> binding.
> 
> This is odd for several reasons.  First, since the binary file I/O is a
> fundamental part of the C I/O library, overriding its definitions seems at
> best lacking in forethought.  Second, most of the source files that refuse
> to compile because of this error message make no reference to any MPI
> calls.  Finally, we aren't even using the C++ binding.
> 
> So how do we fix this without re-writing major parts of our code?
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 


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