[MPICH] SSM channel on Solaris 64bit

[Rajeev Thakur]

I believe if you use gcc on Solaris it should work. With the native Solaris
compilers it doesn't.

Rajeev 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James S Perrin [mailto:james.s.perrin at manchester.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:11 AM
> To: Rajeev Thakur
> Subject: Re: [MPICH] SSM channel on Solaris 64bit
> 
> Thanks, I just wanted to check whether this was a compiler 
> choice issue.
> 
> Regards
> James
> 
> Rajeev Thakur wrote:
> > 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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