[mpich-discuss] unable to get host address

[Pavan Balaji]

Dear Nicolas,

On 02/23/2011 12:14 AM, Nicolas Rosner wrote:
> I happen to have an out-of-the-box MacBook here on which I was testing
> some non-MPI software and was noticing, coincidentally, some
> hostname-related quirks that didnt seem quite standard, at least as
> per my Linux-biased expectations of POSIXness. This broke a few
> (unrelated) programs until workarounds were added, and I thought might
> be misleading hydra similarly.
>
> That said, I just tried and failed to reproduce Alex's problem. Got
> latest stable MPICH2 sources, configured (all as per defaults except a
> --prefix and --disable'ing Fortran). Built OK, added bin to PATH at
> the front (to ensure priority over the built-in OpenMPI), and compiled
> a few of the examples manually. Ran them using your syntax; all worked
> fine, no problem whatsoever.

Thanks for the information. Did you try MPICH2 _after_ you fixed the 
hostname related quirks on your machine? If yes, what were the problems 
and the fixes you made?

  -- Pavan

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Pavan Balaji
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