[MPICH] SSM channel on Solaris 64bit

[Rajeev Thakur]

ssm used to work on Solaris earlier, but not currently. That is why the line
"Please volunteer to fix this code" got added to the error message :-). I
will update the release notes.

Rajeev


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of James S Perrin
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:10 AM
> To: mpich
> Subject: [MPICH] SSM channel on Solaris 64bit
> 
> Hi,
> 	I trying to configure MPICH2 1.0.5p4 on Solaris 9 with 
> the Sun Studio 
> 11 compilers. I wish to use the ch3:ssm channel. From the 
> release notes:
> 
> "The ssm channel uses special interprocess locks (often 
> assembly) that 
> may not work with some compilers or machine architectures. 
> ... It also 
> works in Windows and Solaris environments."
> 
> I'm presuming this means if using gcc (the default) under 
> Solaris as I 
> got the following error:
> 
> configure: error: Use of inline process locks is not 
> supported.  Please 
> volunteer to fix this code
> configure: error: Configure of src/mpid/common/locks failed!
> 
> I had set the following env and run configure as:
> 
> CC=cc
> CXX=CC
> CFLAGS=-xarch=v9 -xcode=pic32 -xs -O -xmemalign=8s
> CXXFLAGS=-xarch=v9 -xcode=pic32 -xs -O -xmemalign=8s
> 
> ./configure --with-mpe --with-pm=mpd --with-device=ch3:ssm 
> --with-thread-package=pthreads --disable-f77 --disable-f90
> 
> I just needs my suspicions confirmed.
> 
> Regards
> James
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