MPICH vs. AIX-MPI on frost?

[Rob Ross]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Tyce Mclarty wrote:

> It looked to me like there was a problem with mixing IBM and mpich scripts 
> and/or libraries with the approach in the README.frost and in the INSTALL 
> files with the distribution. I have not gotten a pure mpich configure to 
> work, but did work out a pure IBM one.
> 
> What you found may be a problem, but I think we have something more basic. 
> When I get configure to run, there is a warning about an "unrecognized 
> fortran name mapping". So it sounds like the IBM compilers are doing 
> something unexpected with fortran names. Not too surprising.
> 
> This would explain why C works fine, but not fortran. I can do some digging 
> through the AIX documentation or catch the guy over here who will know 
> right away in the AM.

There's some badness in how we figure out what prefixes to put on fortran 
symbols; we're going to look into this too.

Sorry about all the rough edges...

Rob