test release: parallel-netcdf 1.3.0pre1

[Jim Edwards]

Hi Rob,

Thanks - not that big of a deal, I just wanted to point out that it wasn't
working
on our BGL dinosaur.        Do you have a 1.3.0p1 install on intrepid that
I can use?

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Rob Latham <robl at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 02:48:49PM -0500, Wei-keng Liao wrote:
> > I cannot find blrts_xlf on Intrepid.
>
> blrts is the old old BGL way of doing things.  On BGP (Intrepid) that
> compiler would be bgxlc.
>
> Jim, our site folks strongly discourage linking directly with bgxlc.
> I can certainly believe it was needed in the BGL days in some
> situations but your life will be a lot easier if you use the mpi
> wrappers.
>
> But we can still add $(LIBS) to the makefile, no problem.
>
> ==rob
> >
> > I can build the prerelease with both compilers wrapper for GNU and the
> IBM compilers.
> > Below is another configure command line I used that uses the IBM
> compilers.
> >
> > configure --prefix=$HOME/PnetCDF \
> >           --host powerpc-bgp-linux \
> >           --build powerpc64-suse-linux \
> >           --enable-fortran \
> >           CC=mpixlc CXX=mpixlcxx \
> >           F77=mpixlf90 F90=mpixlf90 \
> >           MPICC=mpixlc MPICXX=mpixlcxx \
> >           MPIF77=mpixlf90 MPIF90=mpixlf90 \
> >
> > The problem you are seeing looks like a Makefile's issue, rather than
> the compiler's.
> > Could you send me src/lib/Makefile generated after running configure?
> >
> > Wei-keng
> >
> >
> > On Apr 23, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Jim Edwards wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Wei-keng,
> > >
> > > Can you install this on intrepid?   I was just about to test there.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Wei-keng Liao <
> wkliao at ece.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi, Jim,
> > >
> > > I just built the prerelease 1.3.0pre1 on Intrepid, the BGP at Argonne,
> but
> > > could not reproduce the error you reported. The Makefile in
> > > src/lib for building ncvalid has the following lines related to
> ncvalid.
> > > LIBRARY         = libpnetcdf.a
> > > PROGRAM         = ncvalid
> > > $(PROGRAM):     $(PROG_OBJS) $(LIBRARY)
> > >        $(LINK.c) $(PROG_OBJS) $(LIBRARY)
> > >
> > > So, it should put the library file at the end of link command.
> > >
> > > Could you tell us the configure command line you used and also
> > > send us the src/lib/Makefile?
> > >
> > > Here is my configure command line:
> > > ./configure --host powerpc-bgp-linux --build powerpc64-suse-linux
> --with-mpi=/bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor/comm CFLAGS="-Wall -g -O0"
> > >
> > > Wei-keng
> > >
> > >
> > > On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:09 AM, Jim Edwards wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Rob,
> > > >
> > > > In building the prerelease the program ncvalid trys to link without
> libraries - this fails on bgl.   I fixed it by adding $(LIBS) to the link
> line in the src/lib/Makefile.
> > > >
> > > > Jim
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Rob Latham <robl at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello to our pnetcdf community.
> > > >
> > > > Did you realize our last release was in August.  Of 2010?  In some
> > > > ways that's great: Parallel-NetCDF churns along, hopefully delivering
> > > > good performance, and we've had no show-stopping bugs come up forcing
> > > > us to make a new release.
> > > >
> > > > However, development does continue, and we're feeling pretty good
> > > > about the new features in SVN trunk lately, so let's have a
> > > > pre-release so we can get these new features out into applications'
> > > > hands.
> > > >
> > > > Of particular note:
> > > > - A new "buffered put" api, an extension to the non-blocking
> > > >  interface.  See the release notes for more information.
> > > > - Various bug fixes and optimizations
> > > > - You used to need a custom pnetcdf.h header file from Unidata if you
> > > >  wanted to build NetCDF-4 with parallel-netcdf support.  Now you no
> > > >  longer need their header file.
> > > >
> > > > For more information, including download or SVN links, please see the
> > > > release notes:
> > > >
> > > >
> https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/parallel-netcdf/wiki/ReleaseNotes-1.3.0
> > > >
> > > > ==rob (on behalf of the entire pnetcdf team at ANL and NWU)
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Rob Latham
> > > > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> > > > Argonne National Lab, IL USA
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Jim Edwards
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jim Edwards
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Rob Latham
> Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> Argonne National Lab, IL USA
>



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Jim Edwards
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