Compilation problem when using openmpi-1.3.3

[Rob Ross]

Yeah you're right that does look like a bug. Thanks! -- Rob

On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:16 AM, Christoper Daley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm unable to compile parallel-netcdf-1.1.0 with openmpi-1.3.3  
> compiler
> wrapper script (using gcc 4.4.2). I get the following compilation  
> error:
>
>
> mpinetcdf.c:13216: error: incompatible types when assigning to type
> ‘nc_type’ from type ‘MPI_Datatype’
>
> (*request)->vartype = datatype;
>
>
> This looks like a bug to me as vartype is an enum field in the
> NCMPI_Req data structure.
>
>
> I am able to compile parallel-netcdf-1.1.0 with mpich2-1.1.1p1
> compiler wrapper script. I think this is because MPI_Datatype is
> a typedef for an integer in mpich, and so can be freely
> mixed with enum types. This is not the case in openmpi where
> MPI_Datatype is a typedef for a pointer to struct.
>
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Chris
>