mvapich, nonblocking build issue

[Brent Woodruff]

On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Rob Latham wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:36:22PM -0500, Wei-keng Liao wrote:
>> Hi, Brent,
>> 
>> MPI_Get_address is an API defined in MPI2 (not in MPI version 1).
>> Could you check if your MPICC compiler supports MPI2?
>> Let us know what mvapich2 and openmpi versions you have?
> 
> Wei-keng, you're on the right track.  mvapich-1.2.0 is based on the
> ancient MPICH 1.2.7 (an mpi-1 implementation)
> 
> Brent, for the sake of your I/O, please consider MVAPICH2, as it
> contains 7 years worth of MPI-IO improvements. 
> 
> I guess we do not ever build against MPI-1 libraries.  Our configure
> script needs to be modified to detect this (fortunately rare)
> environment and not try to build the nonblocking routines.  
> 
> ==rob

Thanks. Building MVAPICH2 versions is not a problem and I already have this working. I will advise our users that parallel-netcdf is not currently MVAPICH-1 compatible.

Brent W.