Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Langer

 On 02:10 Thu 13 Dec , Justin Bronder (jsbronder) wrote:
  1.1  sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild
  
  file : 
  http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild?rev=1.1view=markup
  plain: 
  http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild?rev=1.1content-type=text/plain

Why have you removed the ifc USE flag (as well as a few others), that
was present in the ebuilds that can still be found at bug 166787?

Matthias


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Sébastien Fabbro
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On 14/12/07 10:24, Matthias Langer wrote:
 On 02:10 Thu 13 Dec , Justin Bronder (jsbronder) wrote:
 1.1  sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

 file : 
 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild?rev=1.1view=markup
 plain: 
 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild?rev=1.1content-type=text/plain
 
 Why have you removed the ifc USE flag (as well as a few others), that
 was present in the ebuilds that can still be found at bug 166787?

For icc and  f90-typesafe, I advised him to do so on #gentoo-science.

ifc/icc use flags should be avoided (see bug #97929).
Disabling f90-typesafe did not make much sense as a use flag once you
have the fortran one enabled, but why --with-mpi-f90-size=medium
and --with-f90-max-array-dim=4 disappeared I don't know.

For the gm and gx flags, I don't know, and there is still a nocxx one.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Langer

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 12:13 +, Sébastien Fabbro wrote: 
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 On 14/12/07 10:24, Matthias Langer wrote:
  On 02:10 Thu 13 Dec , Justin Bronder (jsbronder) wrote:
  1.1  sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild
 
  file : 
  http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild?rev=1.1view=markup
  plain: 
  http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild?rev=1.1content-type=text/plain
  
  Why have you removed the ifc USE flag (as well as a few others), that
  was present in the ebuilds that can still be found at bug 166787?
 
 For icc and  f90-typesafe, I advised him to do so on #gentoo-science.

Well, too bad that gfortran generates code that is often not even half
as fast as the code generated by ifc. Thus, there is a *very valid*
reason to prefer icc over gfortran when it comes to performance critical
software, which programs that use MPI almost always are. However, the
fortran eclass prefers gfortran over ifc even if both are installed
(which is fine by me as long as it can be overridden) and the
fortran-compiler-wrapper mpif90/opal_wrapper (which is a binary for
some reason) wrapps gfortran then.

For sure, something like
F77=ifort FC=ifort FFLAGS=-O3 -xO emerge -av openmpi
still does the trick, but if i want that f90-typesave stuff back, this
line would have to be certainly a bit longer...

Maybe someone can explain to me what positive side effects the removal
of the ifc USE flag has - and why this flag is generally discouraged.

 
 ifc/icc use flags should be avoided (see bug #97929).
 Disabling f90-typesafe did not make much sense as a use flag once you
 have the fortran one enabled, but why --with-mpi-f90-size=medium
 and --with-f90-max-array-dim=4 disappeared I don't know.

The reason it disappeared is that it makes gfortran horribly slow when
compiling against mpi. This is not the case with ifc, and therefore the
old ebuild in bugzilla emitted a bold warning when emerging with
USE=-ifc f90-typesafe but kept quiet if USE=ifc f90-typesave. Thus
it *did make sense* to control it with a USE flag, at least with the
ifc USE flag being around also.

 For the gm and gx flags, I don't know, and there is still a nocxx one.

I'm not qualified to talk about these flags as I've never used them.

Matthias


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Sébastien Fabbro
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On 14/12/07 14:12, Matthias Langer wrote:

 F77=ifort FC=ifort FFLAGS=-O3 -xO emerge -av openmpi

This how it should be. To make it automatically reproducible, specify
environment variables in the configuration files.

 Maybe someone can explain to me what positive side effects the removal
 of the ifc USE flag has - and why this flag is generally discouraged.

Positive side effect: avoid cluttering the tree. Why icc/ifc are
discouraged: you can always try to compile every C/C++ package with
CC=icc and fortran packages with F77=ifort or FC=ifort. Packages which
do specify more options with e.g. --enable-icc and friends can be easily
worked out with the toolchain-funcs and fortran eclass, and most of the
time they do nothing more than specify the environment variables.

If we allow icc/ifc flags, at some point, we could allow a whole bunch
of other compiler flags such as sunstudio. New keywords for compilers
could be a better idea, but I doubt we have the human resources to test
them.

 The reason it disappeared is that it makes gfortran horribly slow when
 compiling against mpi. This is not the case with ifc, and therefore the
 old ebuild in bugzilla emitted a bold warning when emerging with
 USE=-ifc f90-typesafe but kept quiet if USE=ifc f90-typesave. Thus
 it *did make sense* to control it with a USE flag, at least with the
 ifc USE flag being around also.

If the f90-typesafe options always improve compilation time with
gfortran only,  why not using something like this (modified from the
openmpi bump bug):

if use fortran; then
case ${FORTRANC} in
g77) myconf=${myconf} --disable-mpi-f90 ;;
gfortran) myconf=${myconf} --with-mpi-f90-size=medium 

myconf=${myconf} --with-f90-max-array-dim=4 ;;
if*) myconf=${myconf} blah ;;
*) die unsupported fortran compiler: ${FORTRANC}
esac
else
myconf=${myconf} --disable-mpi-f90 --disable-mpi-f77
fi

Let the ebuild make reasonable choices instead of making a user trying
to find out about undocumented use flags.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Matthias Langer

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:16 +, Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
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 On 14/12/07 14:12, Matthias Langer wrote:
 
  F77=ifort FC=ifort FFLAGS=-O3 -xO emerge -av openmpi
 
 This how it should be. To make it automatically reproducible, specify
 environment variables in the configuration files.

Hmm, i know this isn't a support list, but as it fits quite well: can
you tell me what configuration files I have to look for?

 
  Maybe someone can explain to me what positive side effects the removal
  of the ifc USE flag has - and why this flag is generally discouraged.
 
 Positive side effect: avoid cluttering the tree. Why icc/ifc are
 discouraged: you can always try to compile every C/C++ package with
 CC=icc and fortran packages with F77=ifort or FC=ifort. Packages which
 do specify more options with e.g. --enable-icc and friends can be easily
 worked out with the toolchain-funcs and fortran eclass, and most of the
 time they do nothing more than specify the environment variables.
 
 If we allow icc/ifc flags, at some point, we could allow a whole bunch
 of other compiler flags such as sunstudio. New keywords for compilers
 could be a better idea, but I doubt we have the human resources to test
 them.

Well, I basically agree. However, it should be noted that fortran cannot
be compared with C/C++. The latter are the languages no gentoo box can
live without, while fortran is a rather exotic kind of beast, that for
mostly historical reasons, is still used in scientific computing.

Last but not least, ifc is in the tree, while sunstudio is not...

To cut a long story short: I'm not completely happy with your reasoning,
but you convinced me nonetheless ;-).

 
  The reason it disappeared is that it makes gfortran horribly slow when
  compiling against mpi. This is not the case with ifc, and therefore the
  old ebuild in bugzilla emitted a bold warning when emerging with
  USE=-ifc f90-typesafe but kept quiet if USE=ifc f90-typesave. Thus
  it *did make sense* to control it with a USE flag, at least with the
  ifc USE flag being around also.
 
 If the f90-typesafe options always improve compilation time with
 gfortran only,  why not using something like this (modified from the
 openmpi bump bug):

To be exact, f90-typesafe slows down gfortran horribly, while ifc
seems to run as fast as normally with it...

 
 if use fortran; then
   case ${FORTRANC} in
   g77) myconf=${myconf} --disable-mpi-f90 ;;
   gfortran) myconf=${myconf} --with-mpi-f90-size=medium 
 
 myconf=${myconf} --with-f90-max-array-dim=4 
   ;;
   if*) myconf=${myconf} blah ;;
   *) die unsupported fortran compiler: ${FORTRANC}
   esac
 else
   myconf=${myconf} --disable-mpi-f90 --disable-mpi-f77
 fi
 

Well, openmpi-1.2.4-r1 has just been commited by jsbronder and contains
code like this...

Matthias 


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Sébastien Fabbro
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Matthias Langer wrote:
 On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:16 +, Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
 F77=ifort FC=ifort FFLAGS=-O3 -xO emerge -av openmpi
 This how it should be. To make it automatically reproducible, specify
 environment variables in the configuration files.
 
 Hmm, i know this isn't a support list, but as it fits quite well: can
 you tell me what configuration files I have to look for?

At some point, one possibility was to create a
/etc/portage/env/cat/package file with your own set of environment
variables in it. But I have not checked lately if we can still do this.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-14 Thread Duncan
Sébastien Fabbro [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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 Hmm, i know this isn't a support list, but as it fits quite well: can
 you tell me what configuration files I have to look for?
 
 At some point, one possibility was to create a
 /etc/portage/env/cat/package file with your own set of environment
 variables in it. But I have not checked lately if we can still do this.

Should still work, AFAIK (has been here on ~portage), but is portage 
(package manager) specific and then only works on the bash side, not the 
python side, so it won't always work as intended for stuff like features.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/openmpi: ChangeLog openmpi-1.1.1.ebuild openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild

2007-12-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 02:10 Thu 13 Dec , Justin Bronder (jsbronder) wrote:
 1.1  sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild
 
 file : 
 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild?rev=1.1view=markup
 plain: 
 http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/sys-cluster/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.4.ebuild?rev=1.1content-type=text/plain

   if [[ -n ${FORTRANC} ]]; then

This should be 'if use fortran' like the one earlier, to make it clear 
what you're really testing: whether it's a fortran-enabled build.

   if [[ ${FORTRANC} = g77 ]]; then
   myconf=${myconf} --disable-mpi-f90
   elif [[ ${FORTRANC} = gfortran ]]; then
   # Because that's just a pain in the butt.
   myconf=${myconf} --with-wrapper-fflags=-I/usr/include
   fi
   else
   myconf=${myconf}
   --disable-mpi-f90
   --disable-mpi-f77
   fi
 
   econf ${myconf} \
   $(use_enable !nocxx mpi-cxx) \
   $(use_enable romio romio-io) \
   $(use_enable smp smp-locks) \
   $(use_enable heterogeneous heterogeneous) \

You don't need the second argument, it's identical to the first if not 
present.

   $(use_with pbs tm /usr/$(get_libdir)/pbs) \
   $(use_with slurm) \
   $(use_enable ipv6) \
   || die econf failed
 
   emake  || die emake failed
 }
 
 src_install () {
   make DESTDIR=${D} install || die make install failed
   dodoc README AUTHORS NEWS VERSION
 }

Does emake work?

Thanks,
Donnie
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