sieve-dev building petsc-dev on IBM AIX

[Shi Jin]

It looks like the problem is on the macro variable __SDIR__
After preprocessing, it shows up as a string without quotes, such as
src/dm/mesh
I think the solution is to put quotes to it.

Shi
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Shi Jin <jinzishuai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After looking at the problem in more details, I realized that the offsetof
> POD problem is not the critical one.
> It is just a warning.
> However, I had several more serious errors, which are all related to macros
> defined in petsc.
> I have found out that CHKERRQ, SETERRQ, SETERRQ1 and PetscHeaderCreate are
> all giving  severe error  messages like
> "mesh.c", line 414.10: 1540-0063 (S) The text "," is unexpected.
> "mesh.c", line 466.10: 1540-0063 (S) The text ")" is unexpected.
>
> I think they are caused by the macros but not sure exactly what the problem
> is and how to fix it.
> Shi
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
>> experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
>> their experiments lead.
>> -- Norbert Wiener
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Shi Jin, Ph.D.
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~sjin1/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Esjin1/>
>



-- 
Sincerely,
Shi Jin, Ph.D.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~sjin1/
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