Okay, some things I am already discovering. If you do an "svn up", there is some file cleanup you'll need to do to get this to build again. Specifically, you need to:
rm config/mca_m4_config_include.m4 as this is a stale file that will linger and screw things up. On Sep 17, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: > After chatting with Jeff, we decided it would be good to introduce this into > the trunk over the weekend so it can settle before people started beating on > it. Please note: > > WARNING: Work on the temp branch being merged here encountered problems with > bugs in subversion. Considerable effort has gone into validating the branch. > However, not all conditions can be checked, so users are cautioned that it > may be advisable to not update from the trunk for a few days to allow MTT to > identify platform-specific issues. > > See Jeff's notes below about THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW. > > Ralph > > On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > >> Ya, timezone differences and limited communication make it hard / make >> miscommunication easy. >> >> We're not going to wait a year. We're not going to wait a month. >> >> Ralph and I just need to sync up and get this stuff in. I'm *guessing* >> it'll be ready in a week or so. I'll be on the call to discuss next Tuesday. >> >> >> On Sep 13, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Ralph Castain wrote: >> >>> Just to correct: I will almost certainly not be on this week's call, and >>> will definitely not be on for the next two weeks either. >>> >>> A last-minute concern raised by Jeff makes it doubtful this will come into >>> the trunk any time soon, and may see it delayed for more than a year until >>> we are ready for a 1.7 series. Unclear at this time as I don't understand >>> the nature of his concern, and communication is difficult across the globe. >>> >>> For now, we can safely table this issue. It isn't coming in anytime soon. >>> >>> >>> On Sep 12, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: >>> >>>> (Terry: please add this to the agenda for the Tuesday call -- Ralph will >>>> talk about it since I may not be on the call) >>>> >>>> Ralph sent a mail a while ago describing improvements to autogen and the >>>> build process that Brian, Ralph, and I have been working on. We think >>>> this work is now complete, and would like to bring it back to the SVN >>>> trunk. Here's the bitbucket where this stuff lives: >>>> >>>> http://bitbucket.org/rhc/ompi-agen >>>> >>>> We'd like to bring this stuff in to the SVN trunk by the end of the week. >>>> Please examine our changes and/or test the things you care about in the >>>> bitbucket. The SVN commit to the trunk will look large mainly because it >>>> makes almost-identical changes in many Makefile.am's and configure.m4's >>>> (and we removed all configure.params files). >>>> >>>> ******************************************************** >>>> *** THE MOST IMPORTANT THING DEVELOPERS NEED TO KNOW *** >>>> ******************************************************** >>>> >>>> <IMPORTANT> >>>> If your component has a configure.m4 file, it MUST call AC_CONFIG_FILES >>>> for your Makefile.am! (and/or any files that you want configure to >>>> generate). We converted all existing configure.m4 files -- the >>>> ompi/mca/btl/tcp/configure.m4 is a nice simple example to see what I mean. >>>> </IMPORTANT> >>>> >>>> There's some other changes and improvements, but most of them are behind >>>> the scenes. We'll update the relevant wiki pages with all the other >>>> details: >>>> >>>> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/devel/Autogen >>>> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/devel/CreateComponent >>>> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/wiki/devel/CreateFramework >>>> >>>> We understand that Mellanox may have some changes to their local branch of >>>> the OMPI build system; it is unknown whether they conflict with our new >>>> stuff or not. Mellanox is out for ~2 weeks for holidays; we'd like to >>>> bring this stuff in to the SVN trunk sooner rather than waiting 2 weeks >>>> and letting the branch get overly stale. Of course, when Mellanox does >>>> update and get the new stuff, if there are any problems, I'm happy to work >>>> through the issues with them. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jeff Squyres >>>> jsquy...@cisco.com >>>> For corporate legal information go to: >>>> http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> devel mailing list >>>> de...@open-mpi.org >>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devel mailing list >>> de...@open-mpi.org >>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >> >> >> -- >> Jeff Squyres >> jsquy...@cisco.com >> For corporate legal information go to: >> http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> de...@open-mpi.org >> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel >
