<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This seems fine.<div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">William Gropp</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Director, Parallel Computing Institute</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Deputy Director for Research</div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies</div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Dec 13, 2013, at 2:28 AM, Pavan Balaji wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>OK. I’ll run this by BillG as well. I’ve created a ticket:<br><br><a href="https://trac.mpich.org/projects/mpich/ticket/1986">https://trac.mpich.org/projects/mpich/ticket/1986</a><br><br>It’s a little more complicated than I initially thought (it’s not a simple symbolic link). So we’ll not do this for 3.1, which we are in the process of finalizing.<br><br>— Pavan<br><br>On Dec 12, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquyres@cisco.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 12, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Pavan Balaji <balaji@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Will the following tradeoff be acceptable to everyone?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">* We allow users to specify a Fortran compiler using “FC” and “FCFLAGS”. This will result in a wrapper called “mpifort”.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">* We’ll maintain mpif90 as a symbolic link to mpifort for backward compatibility.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">* If no separate F77 compiler is specified, we’ll use FC as the F77 compiler as well. In this case, mpif77 will be a symbolic link to mpifort.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">* But users have the ability to provide a separate F77 compiler, in which case a new mpif77 is created.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">This way, we can still support compilers that have a different F77 compiler. But for most compilers there’ll be a single mpifort (with mpif90 and mpif77 symbolic links for backward compatibility for some time).<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">That sounds perfect.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jeff Squyres<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">jsquyres@cisco.com<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">discuss mailing list discuss@mpich.org<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To manage subscription options or unsubscribe:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">https://lists.mpich.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></blockquote><br>--<br>Pavan Balaji<br>http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>discuss mailing list discuss@mpich.org<br>To manage subscription options or unsubscribe:<br>https://lists.mpich.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>