[mpich-discuss] Excluding c++ compiler from configure script

Pavan Balaji balaji at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Oct 16 09:44:14 CDT 2012


I agree with Bill.  All this should be automatically done by configure.

Jeff/Sam: can you please file a bug report with more information on the 
platform you are using, and the list of log files provided in the README?

Thanks,

  -- Pavan

On 10/15/2012 03:27 PM, William Gropp wrote:
> That's a reasonable workaround, but it shouldn't be necessary.  If the configure can't be made to conditionally skip the AC_PROG_CXX, then the disable-cxx should perform your trick and set CXX=/bin/true .
>
> Bill
>
> William Gropp
> Director, Parallel Computing Institute
> Deputy Director for Research
> Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
> Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
>
>
>
> On Oct 15, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote:
>
>> Just use CXX=/bin/true and the configure tests will all pass trivially
>> but no C++ support will be provided.  I do this for Fortran.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Sam Pedro <pedro18974 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I tried excluding c++ from the 1.5 release of MPICH2 and it still checks for
>>> c++ compiler and aborts the script. I didnt have this problem on 1.4p1
>>> release. I am using '--disable-cxx'. Any suggestions?
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