0.9.3 installation problems on GNU/Linux with lam-mpi

Rob Ross rross at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Feb 3 11:09:09 CST 2004


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Raimondo Giammanco wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:28, Rob Ross wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I see.  At least a few of those, if not all, are going to be due to the
> > "ADIOI_Count_contiguous_blocks" problem.
> > ...
> > but frankly I feel like this is something that the LAM guys need to figure 
> > out or get in touch with us about; they shouldn't be passing types to 
> > ROMIO that they know it can't process.
> > 
> > Rob
> 
> Hello,
>  
>  I am just now compiling lam-mpi-7.0.4 locally, since in my system the
> last stable was 7.0.2 and 7.0.3 is still masked.
> 
> I will compile against this new version, check the persistence of the
> problem, try your file and report back to LAM.

Sounds good.

> But before I think I should wait for the code with the updated
> mpinetcdf.c to be available, for not having them complain about it.

If you have a version that you have already hacked to use ifs, then you 
could go with that.  I'm just doing basically the same thing.

> Alternatively, I could explain them in advance and give directly a
> patch... I have to learn how to make them properly.
> 
> Any suggestions? It is not urgent, so I guess it would be possible to
> wait for pnetcdf's next release and report then the problem.

It's up to you.  With your modified "if" version of mpinetcdf.c and that 
flatten.c, you might be a-ok already.  Let us know...

Regards,

Rob




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