Hi Jeff, On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Anthony -- > > I'm really sorry; we just noticed this message today -- it got lost > in the post-SC recovery/holiday craziness. :-( I understand. :) > > Your request is fairly reasonable, but I wouldn't want to make it the > default behavior. Specifically, I can envision some scenarios where > it might be problematic (e.g., heterogeneous situations -- which we > don't yet support, but definitely will someday). > > How about this -- an ISV asked me for a similar feature a little > while ago: if mpirun is invoked with an absolute pathname, then use > that base directory (minus the difference from $bindir) as an option > to an implicit --prefix. > > (your suggestion may actually be parsed as exactly that, but I wasn't > entirely sure) Yes, that is what I meant. The change should make things easier for typical MPI users. Thanks, A.Chan > > > On Nov 22, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Anthony Chan wrote: > > > > > This is not a bug just wonder if this can be improved. I have been > > running openmpi linked program with command > > > > <openmpi-install-dir>/bin/mpirun --prefix <openmpi-install-dir> \ > > --host A -np N a.out > > > > My understanding is that --prefix allows extra search path in > > addition to > > PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH, correct me if I am wrong. Assuming that > > openmpi's install directory structure is fixed, would it possible for > > mpirun to search <openmpi-install-dir> automatically for libmpi.so & > > friends so to avoid the redundant --prefix <openmpi-install-dir> to > > mpirun ? > > > > Thanks, > > A.Chan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > us...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > -- > {+} Jeff Squyres > {+} The Open MPI Project > {+} http://www.open-mpi.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > >
