[petsc-dev] Install location for MPIUNI mpi.h
Smith, Barry F.
bsmith at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Apr 25 15:28:27 CDT 2018
> On Apr 25, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Balay, Satish <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Smith, Barry F. wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 25, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> "Smith, Barry F." <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>>>
>>>>> On Apr 25, 2018, at 1:36 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> It is currently installed to include/petsc/mpiuni/mpi.h and petscsys.h
>>>>> includes it as <mpi.h>, which means that users of MPIUNI need to put
>>>>> -I/prefix/include/petsc/mpiuni in their command lines. Matt and I agree
>>>>> that this is bad. We disagree on the solution.
>>>>>
>>>>> He wants to install it to /prefix/include/mpi.h as though the user had
>>>>> written --download-mpich. This would conflict if a user later installs
>>>>> a real MPI to that location.
>>>>
>>>> Jed,
>>>>
>>>> So you propose in petscsys.h ?
>>>>
>>>> #if defined(PETSC_HAVE_MPIUNI)
>>>> #include <petsc/mpiuni/mpi.h>
>>>> #else
>>>> #include <mpi.h>
>>>> #endif
>>>>
>>>> I don't have a problem with this.
>>>
>>> Yes, and same installation layout as today.
>>
>> Ok, this is far better than copying the mpiuni mpi.h file to a public place (Matt's suggestion) and is a bit better than requiring the extra -I flag (Satish's suggestion)
>>
>
> All approaches have drawbacks. This approach breaks user code. I guess thats easy to work arround [and fix these
> examples awell]
>
> $ git grep '<mpi\.h>' |grep examples
> src/dm/examples/tests/ex42.c:#include <mpi.h>
> src/tao/leastsquares/examples/tutorials/chwirut2.c:#include <mpi.h>
Fix these examples at the same time.
>
>
>>>
>>>> I notice that the Fortran petscsys.h is scattered full of weird MPIUni specific stuff like
>>>>
>>>> #if defined (PETSC_HAVE_MPIUNI)
>>>> #include "mpiunifdef.h"
>>>> #endif
>>>>
>>>> #if defined(PETSC_HAVE_MPIUNI)
>>>> #define MPI_Comm PetscFortranInt
>>>> #define MPI_Group PetscFortranInt
>>>> #define PetscMPIInt PetscFortranInt
>>>> #else
>>>> #define MPI_Comm integer
>>>> #define MPI_Group integer
>>>> #define PetscMPIInt integer
>>>> #endif
>
> I might have diverged from mpi standard to prevent '-i8' affecting petsc+mpiuni code.
Ah, yes
>
> Satish
>
>>>>
>>>> It seems PETSc Fortran does not use the standard mpif.h file?
>>>
>>> Yuck.
>>
>> I don't remember the history of this construct. There must have been a reason years ago that may no longer exist, I don't know.
>>
>> Barry
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