I see the following warnings when building 1.7.4rc3 on Solaris10 on SPARC w/ the Solaris Studio 12.3 compilers.
"/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/posix/shmem_posix_common_utils.c", line 75: warning: implicit function declaration: shm_open "/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/posix/shmem_ posix_component.c", line 186: warning: implicit function declaration: shm_unlink "/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/posix/shmem_posix_module.c", line 212: warning: assignment type mismatch: pointer to struct opal_shmem_seg_hdr_t {struct opal_atomic_lock_t {..} lock, int cpid} "=" pointer to char "/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/posix/shmem_posix_module.c", line 285: warning: implicit function declaration: shm_unlink "/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/posix/shmem_posix_module.c", line 288: warning: argument #1 is incompatible with prototype: prototype: pointer to char : "/usr/include/sys/mman.h", line 165 argument : pointer to struct opal_shmem_seg_hdr_t {struct opal_atomic_lock_t {..} lock, int cpid} "/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/posix/shmem_posix_module.c", line 306: warning: implicit function declaration: shm_open "/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/posix/shmem_posix_module.c", line 315: warning: assignment type mismatch: pointer to unsigned char "=" pointer to char "/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/posix/shmem_posix_module.c", line 378: warning: argument #1 is incompatible with prototype: prototype: pointer to char : "/usr/include/sys/mman.h", line 165 argument : pointer to unsigned char "/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/sysv/shmem_sysv_module.c", line 278: warning: argument #1 is incompatible with prototype: prototype: pointer to char : "/usr/include/sys/shm.h", line 131 argument : pointer to struct opal_shmem_seg_hdr_t {struct opal_atomic_lock_t {..} lock, int cpid} "/home/hargrove/OMPI/openmpi-1.7.4rc2-solaris10-sparcT2-ss12u3-v9/openmpi-1.7.4rc2/opal/mca/shmem/sysv/shmem_sysv_module.c", line 342: warning: argument #1 is incompatible with prototype: prototype: pointer to char : "/usr/include/sys/shm.h", line 131 argument : pointer to unsigned char Some appear to be missing casts for pointer types (as args and in assignments). Others seem to be missing prototypes for shm_*(), despite including the right headers. In GASNet we found we need to deal with POSIX shared memory as follows on Solaris: #if PLATFORM_OS_SOLARIS && !defined(_POSIX_C_SOURCE) #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L /* Required for shm_{open,unlink} decls */ #include <sys/mman.h> #undef _POSIX_C_SOURCE #elif HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H #include <sys/mman.h> #else .... #endif -Paul -- Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov Future Technologies Group Computer and Data Sciences Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900