Jacob Faibussowitsch <[email protected]> writes: >> Wrt MPICH - My suggestion is to install with --download-mpich --prefix [as >> mentioned]. Primary reason is: we use --with-device=ch3:sock - which is good >> for 'oversubscribe' usage [running "mpiexec -n 8 ./exe" on a dual core box] >> - which is what we normally do during development. And also its valgrind >> clean. > > Prefix is where the source is downloaded to? Or where the libs/binaries are > put? Ideally I would like my source to be in /my/custom/path and the > resulting binaries and libraries to be in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin where > all my other downloaded packages are.
Then modify the brew formula to build with ch3:sock. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/mpich.rb You very much don't want to go dumping non-packaged stuff into system directories.
