Re: [OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix

2018-07-17 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via ompi-packagers
On Jul 17, 2018, at 2:05 PM, r...@open-mpi.org wrote: > > Hold on there - that’s night quite a correct statement. The “prefer external” > mechanism _is_ in place for PMIx and libevent - just not yet for hwloc (I > believe). Thank you for the correction! I've fallen behind on PR's and reviews o

Re: [OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix

2018-07-17 Thread r...@open-mpi.org
> On Jul 17, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via ompi-packagers > wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2018, at 5:11 PM, Geoffrey Paulsen wrote: >> >> In Open MPI v4.0, one of the changes that we're making is to prefer >> external packages in configure versus our internal packages for libeven

Re: [OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix

2018-07-17 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via ompi-packagers
On Jul 10, 2018, at 5:11 PM, Geoffrey Paulsen wrote: > >In Open MPI v4.0, one of the changes that we're making is to prefer > external packages in configure versus our internal packages for libevent, > hwloc, and pmix (also see https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/issues/5031). > There are so

Re: [OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix

2018-07-11 Thread Pritchard Jr., Howard
o:ompi-packagers@lists.open-mpi.org>> Cc: Geoff Paulsen mailto:gpaul...@us.ibm.com>>, Howard Pritchard mailto:howa...@lanl.gov>> Subject: Re: [OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix Date: Wed, Jul 11, 2018 10:59 AM On Jul 11, 2018, at 3:56 AM, Alastair McK

Re: [OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix

2018-07-11 Thread Geoffrey Paulsen
I am HOPING it won't, but we have not done the analysis yet to determine if it's safe to NOT rev the .so version.  Best to assume it WILL rev.We should know more before the end of the month. ---Geoffrey PaulsenSoftware Engineer, IBM Spectrum MPIPhone: 720-349-2832Email: gpaul...@us.ibm.comwww.ibm.c

Re: [OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix

2018-07-11 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) via ompi-packagers
On Jul 11, 2018, at 3:56 AM, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > For the v4.0 release, is it expected that the major library version will > change again ? > > i.e. from so.40 currently on most libraries to so.50 ? I *believe* we have some incompatibilities coming, but I don't remember for sure. Ge

[OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix

2018-07-11 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, For the v4.0 release, is it expected that the major library version will change again ? i.e. from so.40 currently on most libraries to so.50 ? If so, this will involve another transition on Debian/Ubuntu. Also, I'd like to revisit the Symbol versioning feature (https://github.com/open-m

[OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix

2018-07-10 Thread Geoffrey Paulsen
  Dear ompi-packagers,      As one of the two release-engineers for Open MPI v4.0 (Howard Pritchard is the other), I wanted to announce the Open MPI v4.0 schedule, along with a configure change we're planning for Open MPI v4.0.    The current Open MPI v4.0 schedule can be found on the milestones pa

[OMPI packagers] Shift focus to external libevent, hwloc, pmix

2018-04-06 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
In case you didn't see it, I've posted a concrete proposal for shifting configure's bias to using external libevent, hwloc, and pmix: https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/issues/5031 (We talked about this in kinda generalities in Dallas last month; this issue is an attempt to actually nail down