Compiling parallel-netcdf 0.8.9 on QSC (ASCI Q)

[William Gropp]

At 05:59 PM 8/20/2003 -0500, JB Gallagher wrote:
>Rob, Jianwei,
>
>Today I tried getting parallelnetcdf working with the Flash code on ASCI Q 
>(Alpha Compaq cluster running Tru64) I was able to get older versions 
>supplied to me by Jianwei to compile (becasue the configure's don't check 
>if size_t and int are the same size) but code linked with this library 
>fails in a similar way that hdf5_parallel i/o is failing on Q in Flash, I 
>get errors saying the comminucator is not valid:
>
>4 4: The communicator is invalid8
>4 0: Exiting with status 500 (MPI_ERR_COMM in class MPI_ERR_COMM)
>3 3: Exiting with status 500 (MPI_ERR_COMM in class MPI_ERR_COMM)
>
>But most important to you all the configure script from your newest 
>distribution (0.8.9) stops with the size_t int comparison:
>
>checking for size_t... yes
>checking whether size_t and int size match... no
>configure: error: This is a critical error; please report this size 
>mismatch to the developers!

This is a test that we added for the Fortran version.  We are working on a 
new release that works around this for Fortran and that allows you to build 
just the C version.  Do you need the Fortran version?

Bill