Good points. Mellanox -- can you update per Paul's suggestions?
On Aug 13, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Paul Hargrove <phhargr...@lbl.gov> wrote: > The following is NOT a bug report. > This is just an observation that may deserve some text in the README. > > I've reported issues in the past with some Fortran compilers (mostly older > XLC and PGI) which either cannot build the "use mpi_f08" module, or cannot > correctly link to it (and sometimes this fails only if configured with > --enable-debug). > > Testing the OSHMEM Fortran bindings (enabled by default on Linux) I have > found several compilers which fail to link the examples (hello_oshmemfh and > ring_oshmemfh). I reported one specific instance (with xlc-11/xlf-13) back > in February: http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/02/14057.php > > So far I have these failures only on platforms where the Fortran compiler is > *known* to be broken for the MPI f90 and/or f08 bindings. Specifically, all > the failing platforms are ones on which either: > + Configure determines (without my help) that FC cannot build the F90 and/or > F08 modules. > OR > + I must pass --enable-mpi-fortran=usempi or --enable-mpi-fortran=mpifh for > cases configure cannot detect. > > So, I do *not* believe there is anything wrong with the OSHMEM code, which is > why I started this post with "The following is NOT a bug report". However, I > have two recommendations to make: > > 1) Documentation > > The README says just: > > --disable-oshmem-fortran > Disable building only the Fortran OSHMEM bindings. > > So, I recommend adding a sentence there referencing the "Compiler Notes" > section of the README which has details on some known bad Fortran compilers. > > 2) Configure: > > As I noted above, at least some of the failures are on platforms where > configure has determined it cannot build the f08 MPI bindings. So, maybe > there is something that could be done at configure time to disqualify some > Fortran compilers from building the OSHMEM fotran bindings, too. > > -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 > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > de...@open-mpi.org > Subscription: http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/devel > Link to this post: > http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2014/08/15643.php -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
