[MPICH] New Release of MPICH2 (1.0.6)

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:24:23AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:03:59AM -0500, Pavan Balaji wrote:
> > 
> > A new version of MPICH2, 1.0.6, has been released for both Unix and 
> > Windows platforms. You can download it from 
> > http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2. We recommend you upgrade to this 
> > version if you are running an older version of MPICH2 or MPICH-1. New 
> > features in this release include:
> 
> It's broken on FreeBSD.
> 
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/mpich2 --enable-mpe --with-device=ch3:nemesis --enable-fast
> 
> evidently lands here:
> 
> sourcing /usr/home/kargl/tmp/mpich2-1.0.6/src/mpid/ch3/setup_device
> RUNNING SETUP_DEVICE FOR THE CH3 DEVICE
> sourcing /usr/home/kargl/tmp/mpich2-1.0.6/src/mpid/ch3/channels/nemesis/setup_channel
> RUNNING SETUP_CHANNEL FOR THE NEMESIS CHANNEL
> eval: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
> 
> This is typrically a faulty assume that SHELL == bash.
> 

Hmmm, that's a tortured last sentence.  Let's try again.
The above error is definitely related on a faulty assumption
that the user's shell is bash.  I get the above error with
both sh and tcsh on FreeBSD.  After installing bash and 
starting a bash shell, configure completes as expected.

-- 
Steve