[mpich-devel] romio build failure on OpenBSD >= 5.7

Rob Latham robl at mcs.anl.gov
Wed May 25 10:51:27 CDT 2016



On 05/15/2016 08:38 PM, Gilles Gouaillardet wrote:
> Folks,
>
> currently, mpich (master and previous releases) cannot be built on
> OpenBSD 5.7 and later.
> the root cause is 'struct statfs' has no f_type field.
>
> here is attached a patch that fixes that, and add some extra #ifdef
> protections
>
> this issue was initially reported at
> https://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2015/05/17449.php and
> more recently at https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/issues/1635

this has been committed to master.  thanks for catching and reporting 
the build error and making ROMIO's configure checks more robust.

==rob


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