Re: [OMPI devel] Should visibility and memchecker abort configure?

2008-10-06 Thread Ralph Castain
Not exactly - see below On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: I think the real issue here is that --enable-debug (or the presence of the .svn or .hg directories) *implies* several other options, such as --enable-visibility and --enable-memchecker. As I understand it: the user

Re: [OMPI devel] Should visibility and memchecker abort configure?

2008-10-06 Thread Jeff Squyres
I think the real issue here is that --enable-debug (or the presence of the .svn or .hg directories) *implies* several other options, such as --enable-visibility and --enable-memchecker. As I understand it: the user has *not* specifically asked for --enable- visibility, but is getting a

Re: [OMPI devel] Should visibility and memchecker abort configure?

2008-10-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, if you allow me my 2 cents: At configure time, it is possible to distinguish between several different user inputs: - the user typed --enable-foo, - the user typed --disable-foo or --enable-foo=no, - the user typed --enable-foo=ARG (ARG is available for further inspection), - the user

Re: [OMPI devel] Should visibility and memchecker abort configure?

2008-10-03 Thread George Bosilca
On Oct 3, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Ralph Castain wrote: However, what about memchecker? Per my earlier note that crossed this one, is the current behavior a "bug"? As I said if one request the memchecker and we cannot satisfy it, then we should exit with a big error message that clearly state

Re: [OMPI devel] Should visibility and memchecker abort configure?

2008-10-03 Thread Ralph Castain
Ah! I was unaware of that behavior for visibility. Thanks for clarifying - that's a behavior I can live with. However, what about memchecker? Per my earlier note that crossed this one, is the current behavior a "bug"? On Oct 3, 2008, at 7:18 AM, George Bosilca wrote: Ralph in order to

Re: [OMPI devel] Should visibility and memchecker abort configure?

2008-10-03 Thread George Bosilca
Ralph in order to have the behavior you describe for the visibility feature just don't specify --enable-visibility. This will enable it if the feature is supported and disable (plus a small warning) if not. We decided a while ago that 1) we should have a consistent behavior for similar

Re: [OMPI devel] Should visibility and memchecker abort configure?

2008-10-03 Thread Ralph Castain
On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:59 AM, Aurélien Bouteiller wrote: Hi Ralph, 1. No. Having visibility turned off without knowing it is the best way for us to commit bugs in the trunk without noticing, I mean before somebody else get the leg caught in the "not-compiling-trunk trap". I had more of my

Re: [OMPI devel] Should visibility and memchecker abort configure?

2008-10-03 Thread Aurélien Bouteiller
Hi Ralph, 1. No. Having visibility turned off without knowing it is the best way for us to commit bugs in the trunk without noticing, I mean before somebody else get the leg caught in the "not-compiling-trunk trap". I had more of my share of responsibility for that kind of problems in