A workaround for this problem would be to change the selected timer
after configure in 'ompi/contrib/vt/vt/config.h'.
To do this, just replace the line
#define TIMER TIMER_CYCLE_COUNTER
by
#define TIMER TIMER_GETTIMEOFDAY
I agree with Paul - the correct solution would be to choose
Can't speak officially for the VT folks, but it looks like the following
bits in ompi/vt/vt/acinclude.m4 needs to list SPARC and Alpha (maybe
ARM?) along side MIPS as gettimeofday() platforms. Alternatively
(perhaps preferred) one should turn this around to explicitly list the
platforms that *