sieve-dev building petsc-dev on IBM AIX

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Shi Jin <jinzishuai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that changes have been made to make petsc-dev compilable on AIX
> systems with the xlc compilers.  Therefore, I re-visited the same issue
> again with the latest petsc-dev code on an IBM P5 machine running AIX
> 5.3.0.50.
> I tried to build petsc-dev with
> PETSC_DIR=`pwd` PETSC_ARCH="aix5.3.0.0-cxx-opt" config/configure.py
> --with-debugging=no --with-cxx="mpCC_r  -q64" --with-fortran=0
> --with-shared=1  --with-clanguage=C++  --with-sieve=1 --download-boost=1
> PETSC_DIR=`pwd` PETSC_ARCH="aix5.3.0.0-cxx-opt"  make
>
> The configuration went perfectly, without any complaint.
> However, I got lots of messages during the make:
> "../../sieve/Sifter.hh", line 560.180: 1540-1281 (W) "offsetof" cannot be
> applied to "struct Arrow<int,int,int>".  It is not a POD (plain old data)
> type.
>
> Other than this problem, the rest seems fine.  I got the same offsetof POD
> problem when compiling my code with the newly built petsc-dev library. I am
> very encouraged by with since last time we saw lots of different error
> messages.
>
> So I am wondering what we can do to solve the offsetof POD problem. We
> definitely did not see this with g++. . My version is
> seki at cortex conf $ mpCC_r -qversion
> IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX
> Version: 08.00.0000.0013

I saw this as well. I tried to google the error message, but found
nothing to help.
Evidently Boost and MySQL also get this warning but it things still run.

  Matt

> Thank you very much.
> Shi Jin
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have been trying to make sense of these compile errors, but only some
>> of them are valid I believe. The rest seem to be bugs in the C++ compiler.
>> Are you sure you have the latest version? I suggest putting g++ on this
>> machine first and building a valid copy. Then we can address the native
>> compiler issues.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>     Matt
>>
>



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