[mpich-discuss] Building external ROMIO

[Rob Latham]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:59:53AM -0700, David Gunter wrote:
> To that end, I have built OMPI w/o any ROMIO support and now I am
> trying to build ROMIO against it.  I'm doing a bare "configure"
> since I do not think the --with-mpi= flag supports OMPI. I do have
> the path to mpicc in my PATH, etc.
> 
> The configure stops with the error message:
> 
> configure:11958: error: Unable to compile a simple MPI program.
> Use environment variables to provide the location of MPI libraries and
> include directories
> 
> What environment variables should be set for configure to pick up?

Hi david.  I usually build ROMIO this way by setting CC to the mpi
compiler.

I think I have committed all the changes to let standalone romio
build; you will probably have the easiest time if you work either from
ROMIO svn repository or the ROMIO from the recent MPICH2 pre-release.

==rob

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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Lab, IL USA