Compilation problem when using openmpi-1.3.3

[Rob Ross]

Thanks very much! -- Rob

On Nov 25, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Rich Lee wrote:

> I found that the attached patch I created helped me in compiling  
> parallel-netcdf 1.1.0 with openmpi (version 1.2.7). Note that the  
> patch should apply to the original parallel-netcdf 1.1.0  
> distribution. It contained addition fix (for C++ compiler) I  
> reported early.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rich Lee
> SLAC National Accelerator Lab
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Christoper Daley <cdaley at flash.uchicago.edu 
> > wrote:
> Hi Kui,
>
> I applied the patch, and now get a different compilation error:
>
>
> mpinetcdf.c: In function ‘ncmpii_postprocess’:
> mpinetcdf.c:8249: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of  
> ‘ncmpii_postread’
> mpinetcdf.c:8143: note: expected ‘nc_type’ but argument is of type  
> ‘MPI_Datatype’
> mpinetcdf.c: In function ‘ncmpi_iget_var1’:
> mpinetcdf.c:8794: error: incompatible types when assigning to type  
> ‘MPI_Datatype’ from type ‘nc_type’
> mpinetcdf.c: In function ‘ncmpi_iget_var’:
> mpinetcdf.c:9078: error: incompatible types when assigning to type  
> ‘MPI_Datatype’ from type ‘nc_type’
> mpinetcdf.c: In function ‘ncmpi_iget_vara’:
> mpinetcdf.c:9372: error: incompatible types when assigning to type  
> ‘MPI_Datatype’ from type ‘nc_type’
> mpinetcdf.c: In function ‘ncmpi_iget_vars’:
> mpinetcdf.c:9661: error: incompatible types when assigning to type  
> ‘MPI_Datatype’ from type ‘nc_type’
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Kui Gao wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>        Thank you very much for your report. It is a bug.         
> "nc_type vartype" should be replaced by "MPI_Datatype vartype" at
> L66 in src/lib/pnetcdf.h .        The patch file is attached.
>        Thanks,
>
> Kui.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: parallel-netcdf-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> [mailto:parallel-netcdf-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Rob  
> Ross
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 8:37 AM
> To: Christoper Daley
> Cc: parallel-netcdf at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: Compilation problem when using openmpi-1.3.3
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> <forOpenMPI.patch>